Do financial incentives increase knowledge sharing in a computer mediated environment? Thirty-six accounting students assigned to groups with different financial incentives (group, piece-rate, or tournament) searched for errors in accounting-related spreadsheets, with access to an online chat...

This paper models two key roles of subjective performance evaluations: their incentive role and their feedback role. The paper shows that the feedback role makes subjective pay feasible even without repeated interaction, as long as there exists some verifiable measure of performance. It also...

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...