Motivated by the prevalence of experimentation in online platforms and social networks, we consider the problem of designing randomized experiments to assess the effectiveness of a new market intervention for a network of users. An experiment assigns each user to either the treatment or the...

Using unique data from a major Chinese bank, we find that following the bank’s adoption of a nonlinear incentive scheme for its credit card sales managers, the number of credit cards approved increases sharply at the end of each month. Further analysis shows that this occurs through a...