provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been … incentives - they win more games when there is still a chance to reach the playoffs and lose more after being eliminated from …

Managers often use tournaments which motivate workers to compete for the top, compete to avoid the bottom, or both. In … three mechanisms with the appropriate distribution of prizes. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment and … ; promotion ; firing ; contract ; experiment ; learning …

This paper investigates whether a designer can improve both the incentive provision and the selection performance of a …

of wage inequality. -- wage dispersion ; effort ; experiment ; gift-exchange …

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an … Championships, where a rule change in 2009 basically constituted a natural experiment that introduced one costless opportunity for … qualified ones. From a survey among spectators, we show that sabotage is welfare-reducing. -- tournaments ; sabotage ; Judo …

the nature of provided incentives. We conduct a 'lab in the field' experiment with internal auditors during two large … performance of the unit that they are auditing. We vary incentives in the experiment from individual (piece rate) to competitive … that incentive-based compensation increases dishonest behavior among internal auditors: competitive incentives lead to …

a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …