in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in … of German academics, I find that performance incentives attract more productive academics, and research quantity …

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …

rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to …

can hold-up, the lower is the implementable degree of peer dependent incentives. In a setting with team effects … complementary tasks and peer pressure, respectively we show that while team-based incentives are optimal if agents are dispensable …, it may be costly, and in fact suboptimal, to provide team incentives once the agents become indispensable …

each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for the agent to work hard: a bonus and a threat of dismissal …

economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than … complement, or even substitute for, monetary incentives. While we discuss awards in the context of academia, our conclusions …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …

consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions …