Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …

literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …

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 …

&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …