through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … perceived property rights) will affect individuals' subsequent behavior. In our experiment, bargaining pairs earned endowments …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men … hold more optimistic beliefs about coworkers' cooperativeness than men who lack confidence, and are accordingly …

-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our … workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …

-assessments can be detrimental to workers ́performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our … workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …

role in determining the behavior of their counterparts. In our experiment, only the trustee is aware of the size of the …'s behavior and risk attitude are also elicited in the experiment. Our results show that the first movers' choices are functions …

is true, then the lessons to be learned from principal-agency theory are all the wrong ones. Concentrating on incentives …The canonical principal-agent problem involves a risk-neutral principal who must use incentives to motivate a risk … inefficient risk-sharing. These experimental outcomes, while anomalous from the standpoint of principal-agency theory, are quite …

experiment.This difference is higher the higher is the family level of income and the parental education status of the subjects …

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural …