It has been argued in the multitask agency literature that effort distortion can be mitigated by applying several …

This paper seeks to explore how an agent's incentives to perform influences her performance. We analyze this question … show that the relationship between the incentives to perform and the expected performance could be negative. The paper thus … offers a novel, non-behavioral explanation for the failure of incentives …

knowledge of the surrounding environment. In this setting, incentives need to be robust to the agent's different beliefs. We …

reduces the agent's effort incentives owing to income effects in the demand for leisure. It is shown that optimal effort …

and incentives, can induce firms to behave strategically: they will offer very low bids to be awarded the contract …

under which delegation changes the scope of peer sanction and thus influences the implicit incentives generated by the … information regarding the effient decision. We show that implicit incentives under delegation are strongest in diverse teams and …

observing the supervisor's effort, reducing the supervisor's incentives to shirk. Thus, joint performance evaluation can be … incentives are paramount. Further, with a less accurate performance measure, the principal's preference for a supervisor …