effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important … consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions …

severance policy facilitates the adoption of team incentives and team-based production by making it cost-effective to implement …This paper examines the optimal compensation scheme, job design, and severance policy for a team using a model of …

verbal communication. This article reports an experiment, in which we compare the degree of routinization and the performance …

In this paper, we analyze group incentives when a proportion of agents feel in- equity aversion as defined by Fehr and … show that a tournament provides strong incentives to agents who only care about their own payoff but that it is not …

This dissertation analyzes the incentives of workers in organizations that utilize teams. In Chapter 1, I study a moral … performance evaluation — each agent's pay is increasing in the performance of the other — and is nonlinear in team output. In …-Rodriguez, Peng Shao, and I study the efficiency of decentralized team formation inside research organizations through the lens of a …

We study an infinitely-repeated game of team production, where agents must supply costly effort under moral hazard. The … principal also has the option to delegate an additional production-relevant decision to a team member. We provide conditions … under which delegation changes the scope of peer sanction and thus influences the implicit incentives generated by the …