This paper examines incentives and gaming behavior in a sales workforce using personnel records from one of Japan …

Several empirical findings have challenged the traditional trade-off between risk and incentives. By combining risk … risk and incentives can be explained. …

their own performances with those of co-workers. I analyze the interplay of emotions and incentives by focusing on a certain … emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from emotional workers, and I sketch the impact of … risk aversion on the interplay of emotions and incentives, and the influence of a worker’s success probability on the …

work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …

anonymity principle. Incentives do matter regarding the crowding effect toward users …

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a … sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral …

incentives for university professors. However, even before the reform, publication records of university German professors showed … heterogeneity distinguishing junior academics and professors. We analyze the effects of selected reform elements on the incentives …

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …