participate in winner-take-all competitions. To entice them and maximize performance, the organizer promises a softer competition …

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 …

Within-group communication in competitive coordination games has been shown to increase competition between groups and … communication, it leads to more aggressive competition and lower efficiency relative to the case when neither group can communicate …

competition and lower efficiency. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending … both groups leads to even more aggressive competition and the lowest payoffs to both groups. Despite such a “harmful …