provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when …-monetary incentives; and (4) firms compete on the product market. We show that both the degree of knowledge spillovers and of market … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …

Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In …

This paper explores the relationship between time preferences, economic incentives, and body mass index (BMI). Using … to the largest weight gains among those exhibiting the most impatience. The interaction of changing economic incentives …

compensation plans on personal productivity. We study an international law firm that moves from high-powered individual incentives … towards incentives for "leadership" activities that contribute to the firm's long run profitability. The effect of this change …

The use of incentives to encourage healthy behaviors is increasingly widespread, but we have little evidence about how … margins through an experiment offering incentives to employees of a Fortune 500 company to use their workplace gym. Overall … the likelihood of joining the gym was not strongly affected by the incentive design. Notably, front-loading incentives to …

We derive a measure that captures the extent to which overlapping ownership structures shift managers' incentives to … possibility that the growth of common ownership has had a significant impact on managerial incentives.Institutional subscribers to …

suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone …

Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm … focuses heavily on the role of inertia as sources of organizational rigidity. Drawing on recent research on incentives in … organizational economics and on cognition in organizational theory, we build a framework for the analysis of incentives that …

rigid than pay that is not designed to effect incentives. Some have gone so far as to argue that this may explain … differences in unemployment rates across countries. it is shown that there is no direct link between incentives and wage rigidity …. Many compensation schemes that provide incentives have the reverse effect: That is, they tend to make wages more rigid than …