compensation given to the leader. Our main finding is that a moderate compensation to the leader is highly beneficial, it increases … the average contribution by almost 80%. A high compensation, however, is detrimental to public good provision. We show … that paying a moderate compensation to the leaders strikes the right balance between the need for recruiting leaders and …

We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments … the three leader treatments, we manipulate the level of compensation given to the leader. Our main finding is that a … moderate compensation to the leader is highly beneficial, it increases the average contribution by 63% relative to a situation …

In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their …-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games … under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost …

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is …, using a sample of managers and employees from a large company. We exogenously vary whether managers are informed about … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated …-effort relationships. Our systematic analysis also replicates established results on gift exchange, incentives, and crowding out of …

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated …-effort relationships. Our systematic analysis also replicates established results on gift exchange, incentives, and crowding out of …