performance feedback provision and peer effects on individuals' performance. First, it discusses to which extent feedback on … absolute performance affects individuals' effort for cognitive or motivational reasons, and how evaluations can be distorted … strategically. Second, this paper highlights the positive and negative effects of feedback on relative performance and rank on …

find that a more convex prize spread increases performance in the second round at the expense of first-round performance … historically have relatively stable performance as compared to stores with more noisy performance. Publication is forthcoming in …

find that a more convex prize spread increases performance in the second round at the expense of first-round performance … historically have relatively stable performance as compared to stores with more noisy performance. …

We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the … outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers … to individual performance measures. We find a significant positive impact of objective performance measurement on effort …

performance ratings can induce local governments to become responsive. The evidence is based on application of a difference … behavior. Some policy guidelines on the design and implementation performance benchmarks are made. -- Local governments … ; political agency ; performance ratings ; decentralization …

performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic … treatment groups. The only treatment not increasing test performance is criterion-based grading on an A-F scale, which is the … typical grading method. Test performance is significantly higher if employing rank-based grading or giving students a symbolic …

relevance, reliability, and roles associated with the design of performance measures and performance measurement systems for …, interdisciplinary theories are used to develop theory labeled implicit accounting architecture for how performance measures and … performance measurement systems function in a highly uncertain emergent learning situation in which subordinates are relied on to …

performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic … treatment groups. The only treatment not increasing test performance is criterion-based grading on an A-F scale, which is the … typical grading method. Test performance is significantly higher if employing rank-based grading or giving students a symbolic …

. An important characteristic of any performance measure, therefore, is the time at which it is generated. The results shed … light on the use of forward-looking performance measures such as stock returns or earnings with accruals for accounts …