This Paper examines optimal incentives and performance measurement in a setting where an agent has specific knowledge … choice of performance measures and incentives depends on the agent’s knowledge, environmental risk, technological uncertainty …, and job complexity. The theory leads to several novel predictions, as well as new explanations for existing empirical …

standards? Second, does UI exhaustion have much effect on the probability of getting a job through increasing incentives to work …

. The way the scheme has been designed raises many questions for which theory makes predictions. We test these predictions …

organization to manipulate the incentives of politicians to provide effort. We show that intra- and inter-party competition … interact to shape these incentives. We also get new insights on the role of information, polarization, and on the value of … use our theory to interpret the introduction of the Direct Primary system in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. …

A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in … organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …