incentives and prizes. The conceptual factors highlighted by our analytical framework are then tested through a laboratory … experiment. The experimental exercise aims to analyze how prizes and incentives impact actual individuals' behavior differently …. Our results show that both incentives (monetary and contingent) and prizes (non-monetary and discretional rewards) boost …

, but only if the prizes are publicly announced in the local newspaper and awarded in a public ceremony. The results are … prizes are most effective as motivators when they are awarded publicly. Because we do not detect a reduction in donation …

rewards are given, but only if the prizes are publicly announced in the local newspaper and awarded in a public ceremony. The … symbolic prizes are most effective as motivators when they are awarded publicly. Because we do not detect a reduction in …

ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To …

ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To …

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …