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 …

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. …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team … identity does not improve performance. Social image motivates the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all …

thepresence of tournament incentives, agents react reciprocally to higher wages, whichmitigates the sabotage problem.[...] …