. This paper analyses the investment incentives of such agents and the role of incumbency advantages in the contest …

a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and … that differences in performance are predominantly related to individual skills. -- creativity ; incentives ; real effort …

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group … performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …

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 …

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 … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …

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 …

incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …