Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction only because they exceed more … costly, higher incentives also change reservation prices to further increase participation. A higher incentive makes people …. Hence, incentives change not only what people choose, but also what they believe their choices entail. This result informs …

outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …

selection probability induce the monetary incentives in a large-scale Internet treatment. Two laboratory treatments complement … incentives. Our results suggest that cost-effective BRIS consist of high nominal payoffs and a small selection probability. …

rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to …

performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present …

incentives to implement such a trigger? We construct a theoretical model of a bank that is financed with debt and equity, and a …. However, we show that the board may implement a contract with insufficient incentives to communicate a warning, as refinancing …

In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent …

prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …