of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a way to provide incentives to managers whose interests …

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 …

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 …

A literature has found that medical providers inflate bills and report more conditions given financial incentives. We … evaluate whether Medicare reimbursement incentives are driven more by bill inflation or coding costs. Medicare reformed its …

with an online education platform run in the field (n=1,373), in which we randomize incentives to complete course modules … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … which we randomize incentives to complete a survey three weeks later and the price of reminders to complete the survey. In …

relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and …

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