Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance …

framework. We test the model’s predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic … net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …

trembling-hand perfect equilibrium under selfish preferences even towards the end of our experiment. The likely reasons for our …

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even … implementation to allocations that are supportable given the effect of incentives on preferences. -- public goods ; behavioural … experiments ; social preferences ; second best ; motivational crowding ; explicit incentives …

using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii …