incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …

This paper reports an experimental investigation of a trust game using either cash or class credit as incentives to … extra-credit points added to the students' overall average at the end of the semester. The results indicate that using extra …