classical models, the principal offers a pay-per-performance wage to the agent, determining the agent’s extrinsic incentives …

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …

When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater … persistence of effort, while continuous incentives entail exit as soon as payment stops. Randomness increases both earlier and …

When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater … persistence of effort, while continuous incentives entail exit as soon as payment stops. Randomness increases both earlier and …

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …

intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated … with lower degrees of absenteeism while this is not the case for individual incentives. …

Despite its central role in the theory of incentives, empirical evidence of a tradeoff between risk and incentives …

controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …

controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …