patents affect patenting incentives. We show that lower technological opportunities increase patenting incentives in complex … technologies while they decrease incentives in discrete technologies. Also, more competitors increase patenting incentives in …

rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to …Using field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded … cause large shifts in behavior. Our results illustrate important implications of complexity for designing and regulating …

rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to …Using field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded … cause large shifts in behavior. Our results illustrate important implications of complexity for designing and regulating …

Standard economics models require that financial incentives improve performance, while leading theories in psychology …