the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …

This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using … "subjective performance evaluation"). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization …, we show that transparency enables the employees to collectively sanction the organization for reneging on subjective …

The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may … undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 …

agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I show that the non-contractibility of effort (asymmetric information …

extrinsic motivation is reinforced. Based on the common pool approach to the firm, institutions are proposed which serve to …

). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …

, namely popularity and personalization parameters, on measures of platform engagement, misinformation and polarization. The … personalized content may increase engagement on the social media platform, while at the same time increasing misinformation and …