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Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …-effort task to be well-suited for such an exercise, subjects' cost for exerting effort must, for the range of incentives … nonmonetary incentives. However, despite its increasing use, a simple between-subject examination of the slider task's response to …
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Incentives are the essence of economics, and the question of how workers’ choices of effort and work hours respond to … financial incentives is among the oldest questions in labor economics. Many efforts have already been devoted to understanding … substitution effect. However, inconsistent with predictions of neoclassical model and behavioral model based on prospect theory …
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The paper identifies a condition under which favouritism is beneficial to the principal even when the favoured agent is selected randomly. This paper also characterizes how the optimal incentive scheme changes in presence of random favouritism. Using a moral hazard framework with limited...
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
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