's performance, but are not observed by anybody; in the last group subjects work in isolation, neither observing, nor being observed …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …

Group compensation and public announcement of performance are two common aspects of working with other people. We … opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group compensation and public announcement of performance have little effect on work … to charity, and group compensation significantly increases the share donating. The results suggest that interpersonal …

how individuals' willingness to compete is affected by group identity. We find that individuals display substantially … stronger competitiveness in within group (ingroup) matchings than in between group (outgroup) matchings or in a control setting … where no group identity is induced. We also find that the effect of group identity is stronger for subjects who participated …

employees are exogenously assigned to either a high-performing or a low-performing peer group. We find that RPI boosts … performances when employees are assigned to the low-performing group. In contrast, when assigned to the high-performing group, our … high-performing group. Analyzing subsequent performances suggests that providing self-selection options allows employees to …

ability or implementation constraints in running a business. Policies aimed at team creation for start-up enterprises may have …

the group chat logs and two additional experiments show that participants tend to shy away from proposing interventions in …

Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that … entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two … groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive) group will optimally not implement them because they compound …

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting … reduces reciprocity. -- trust ; reciprocity ; investment game ; group membership ; competition …

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output … is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for … different degrees of complementarity between group members' efforts. More specifically, we use a Tullock contest success …