mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans …

cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated …

The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …

endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax …

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general … also show how social norms can induce multiplicity of equilibria and how steeper economic incentives can reduce effort …

in a simple model that the perceived degree of past differentiation affects future incentives. We then study the impact …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …