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 …

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 …