under-compensation region. Ambiguity also causes a disconnect between the current effort cost and the strength of incentives …. That is, even when the agent is under-compensated, his incentives are as strong as in the over-compensation region, since … the worst-case. analyze the agent's incentives for this case, and show that the possibility of firing is detrimental to …

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insuranceand a “good” allocation of effort across …

work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …

Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives … bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward … minor role. Incentives improve performance also in an additional sample of presumably less motivated workers. However …

Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a … benefit as a manager has the strongest incentives to work hard to get promoted. This article shows how the interplay of …

incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a series of field experiments involving more than 5,000 participants, we … investigate how incentives alter behavior in teams working on such a task. We document a positive effect of bonus incentives on … those seen with bonus incentives, rendering it as a likely mediator of incentive effects. …