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the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
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the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … analysed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263111
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex … players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. …
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Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequential. We show that … agents’ strategic behavior in sequential-move tournaments significantly differ from the one in simultaneous-move tournaments …
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To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442390
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team …
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