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The impact of performance pay in institutions with multiple goals depends on complementarities in the disutility cost of effort and how different tasks interact to achieve each goal. Workers of a mission-oriented nonprofit were randomly assigned to one of two bonus schemes, each incentivizing...
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Drawing on the proposer-responder game examined by Andreoni, Harbaugh, and Vesterlund (2003), I experimentally test four variations of a principal-agent relationship with fixed pay and real effort. Depending on the treatment, the principal can voluntarily, but at her own expense, (1) only reward...
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We analyze relational contracting between a principal and a team of agents where only aggregate output is observable …. We deduce optimal team incentive contracts under different set of assumptions, and show that the principal can use team … size and team composition as instruments in order to improve incentives. In particular, the principal can strengthen the …
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We study a relational contracting model with two agents where each agent faces multiple tasks: effort toward the agent's own project and helping effort toward another agent's project. We first propose the two-step approach, which is useful for characterizing the equilibrium of relational...
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incentive bonuses to a team of employees, who would thus exert effort to reduce operational risk losses. We characterize … general modeling framework to capture team-based effort and an incentive bonus toward risk mitigation …
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tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers …
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A worker's utility may increase with his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. Such behavior may call for high-powered incentives, so that increased effort by the worker little increases the income of his employer. This paper uses a principal-agent model...
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