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subjectively evaluated creativity-based contests. We conduct an experiment to investigate the impact of two contest design choices … behavior. We also examine how these contest design choices impact the creativity of the submitted ideas. We find that using a … participants who enter the contest. In addition, we find that using peer evaluators leads to an increase in the creativity of the …
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This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...
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Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is ambiguous empirical evidence concerning how such contests...
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
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Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents …
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
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