tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …

incentives schemes is not a relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are …We conduct a laboratory experiment among male participants to investigate whether rewarding schemes that depend on work … performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed …

Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this … heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and …

crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …