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This paper studies how firms can efficiently incentivize supervisors to truthfully report employee performance. To this end, I develop a dynamic principal-supervisor-agent model. The supervisor is either selfish or altruistic towards the agent, which is observable to the agent but not to the...
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In the reported experiment different payment schemes are examined on theirincentive effects. Payment based on …
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incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance -- in particular when the incentive … plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …
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In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability-the implicit or explicit expectation of … incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability with incentives makes causal attributions of any effects found … problematic. We separate accountability and incentives, and find different effects. Accountability is found to reduce preference …
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performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
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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 …
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