Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational …

We analyze group contests for public goods by applying the solution concept of an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS …

We take into account that envy (relative consumption concerns) is more pronounced in the present than in the future. We … exogenous parameters. Agents' preferences exhibit present-biased envy: agents are naive and care about how their consumption … levels compare to that of others in the current period. Our results suggest that present-biased envy affects both the level …

A worker's utility may increase in his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income … various assumptions about the object and generality of envy. Envy amplifies the effect of incentives on effort and, therefore …, increases optimal incentive pay. Moreover, envy can make profitsharing optimal, even when the worker's effort is fully …

aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy … presence of inequality concerns: the mean envy coefficient is 0:426 with a 95% probability that the true value lies in the …

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and … payoffs for both nondiscriminatory and discriminatory (where the reward is contestant-dependent) contests. We derive …