behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …

In this paper we report on a principal-agent experiment where the principal can choose whether to rely on an …. Our experiment suggests that principals who are less fair are more likely to choose a combined contract and less likely to … actually pay the announced bonus. This offers a new explanation for why explicit and implicit incentives are substitutes rather …