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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 …
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competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a … sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral …
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This paper analyzes the optimal contract for a consumer to procure a credence good from an expert when (i) the expert might misrepresent his private information about the consumer’s need, (ii) the expert might not choose the requested service since his choice of treatment is non-observable,...
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...
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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 …
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This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …
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A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...
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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 …
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Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from classical moral-hazard settings. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties. I show that the (implicit) assumption of deterministic contracts makes payments to third parties necessary....
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