During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organizations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …

whether market prices will provide incentives for investments consistent with these reserve requirements. …

ex-post inefficient, it provides entrepreneurs with high-powered incentives ex ante. We show that two types of equilibria …

incentives. Using detailed information on code contributions and project membership, we classify developers into distinct groups …

here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model … of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in … a non-negligible way. The results, however, also have some puzzling features: financial incentives appear to have much …

relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure and the …

staffed by motivated agents who subscribe to the mission. This Paper studies incentives in such contexts and emphasizes the … for high-powered incentives. The framework developed in this Paper is applied to non-profits, school competition, and … incentives in the public sector. …