We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …

innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive … pressure measured by product substitutability may decrease firms' incentives to conduct continuous improvement, and that an … increase in the size of discrete innovation may decrease firms' incentives to conduct continuous improvement. A unique feature …

to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … to be more mixed and modest than expected. We suggest that this in fact should not be surprising, since economic theory … on incentives and incomplete contracts (beginning with many contributions also from the 1950s) leads to a more nuanced …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …

incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort … aggregated to the day. Our data allow us to look within the workday. We find that workers do respond to incentives within the day …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …