We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …

race nature of R&D tournaments. …

race nature of R&D tournaments. …

incentives are renewed but fade when they are discontinued. Fixed bonuses lead to smaller effects. Both treatments appear to …

incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …

work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … work periods as tournaments that are linked through fatigue spillovers, inducing a non-time-separable decision problem. We … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods …

tournaments and piece rates as alternative incentive schemes has focused on the case of unlimited liability. However, in practice … under piece rates than under tournaments. Moreover, if first-best implementation is not achieved and workers earn positive … rents, efforts and profits will be larger for piece rates than for tournaments given sufficiently convex costs. While …