We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort … provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort … provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort … provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental …

We experimentally investigate the effect of a dominated contract in team production, which punishes low output but does …

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we …

We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …