In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent …

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 …

the most mass on this belief, followed by BDM and BSR. We also find that incentives increase accuracy for less … the difficulty of comprehending the task and how well incentives induce cognitive effort (thereby inducing subjects to …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks …

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 …

Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives – as present … in relevant economic decisions – on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely … levels: no incentives, standard lab payments, and very high incentives that increase the stakes by a factor of 100 to more …

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 …