We in vestigate the extent of the impact that direct tax subsidies (the "push" effect) and the competitiveness of the production tax system (the "pull" effect) have on research and development. A panel dataset of nine countries over nineteen years is used to estimate a dynamic fixed effects...

This paper presents evidence from a laboratory experiment regarding the effect of information about opportunities and effort in redistributive behaviour. In the experiment, individuals are randomly selected into one of two groups, each endowed with differing probabilities of earning $20. By...

Many incentive plans are inherently ambiguous, lacking an explicit mapping between performance and compensation. Using an online labor market, Amazon Mechanical Turk, we study the effect of ambiguity on willingness to accept contracts to do a real-effort task as well as completion and...

Empirical studies investigating work motivation over time find people with fluctuating wages work more on days when their wage rate is lower compared to when wages are higher. The authors of these studies theorize individuals use daily income goals and stop working once they reach their goal....

We explore the behavior of losers of promotion tournaments after the tournament is concluded. We do so through the use of an experiment in which we vary the design of the promotion tournament to determine how tournament design affects post tournament effort. We provide a theoretical model...