informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …

performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … teams' average performance by almost 10 percent. The treatment effect is driven by higher top performance, as this is almost …

We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with …-average performance, their outcomes improve - otherwise their outcomes deteriorate. Combined with survey evidence, this pattern of results …

government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected … individual performance feedback three times over one year resulted in a 25% increase in daily signups, compared to otherwise … similar encouragement and reminders. Adding benchmark information that compared CSRs performance to average and top peer …

reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based pay are substitutes. A firm endogenously determines the mix of the two …