Incentives often distort behavior: they induce agents to exert effort but this effort is not employed optimally. This … paper proposes a theory of incentive design allowing for such distorted behavior. At the heart of the theory is a trade …-off between getting the agent to exert effort and ensuring that this effort is used well. The theory covers various moral …

reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …

reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …

In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their …-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games … under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost …

incentives for problematic rent-seeking behaviors: strategic investments intended to influence the outcome of litigation, and …