During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …

simple rationale for team based incentives in many environments. Fourth, the Sufficient Statistics Result is violated …

of various incentives schemes, which can be specifically implemented to boost recruitment to rural general practice, is … consider joint policy programs containing several incentives if the policies are to have a sufficient impact on the motivation …

Financial or tangible incentives are a strategy for improving health behaviours. The mechanisms of action of incentives … throughout, we developed a typology of incentives and their meanings for initiating and sustaining smoking cessation in pregnancy …

cost of future accidents function which is used to filter out the pure incentives effect, whereas the bonus-malus scale is …

We analyze whether incentives from relative performance pay are reduced or enhanced if a department is possibly … terminated due to a crisis. Our benchmark model shows that incentives decrease in a severe crisis, but are boosted given a minor …