Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance … Tirole (2011) to explore the effect of esteem-based incentives and their interaction with traditional monetary incentives. We … show that esteem-based incentives can indeed lead to a loss of control by generating multiple equilibria, some of which …

performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of …, the strength of the incentives included in the optimal contract, and the location of incentives on the output space. Our …

This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance … under higher incentives, but appear less susceptible of choking. These results speak to a growing literature on the limits …

incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …

than in the stable environment. This finding is in line with standard agency theory and contrasts a distinct element of … expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation. …