This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on …

choose between (low-powered) team incentives and (high-powered) individual incentives. We observe that subjects exhibiting … high trust or reciprocity in the trust game are more likely to choose team incentives. When exposed to individual … incentives, workers who chose team incentives perform worse if both the unobservable interdependency between workers and their …

dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental …

truthful. Still, the principal will always include such a bonus in the optimal contract, and possibly complement it with a team …

decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … the predictions of prospect theory extrapolated to a social context. …

help of a survey and also observe actual agreements in a bargaining experiment with real money at stake. We find that the …