This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...

Cover -- Zum Inhalt / Zum Autor -- Titel -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einführung -- 1. Der Markt -und darüber hinaus -- Teil A: Der Verdrängungseffekt -- 2. Alltagserfahrungen -- 3. Psychologischer Hintergrund -- 4. Integration in die Wirtschaftstheorie -- 5. Der Übertragungs-Effekt...

The Motivation Crowding Effect suggests that external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may undermine, and under different identifiable conditions strengthen, intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical possibility of motivation crowding has been the main subject of...

Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...

The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical possibility of crowding effects is widely accepted among...