adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a … formal model on labor supply and performance for individuals with different degrees of risk aversion and intrinsic motivation …

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks …

reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …

weights in payout calculations, and contribute little to executive pay risk. Such ESG metrics with arguably weak incentive … incentives, are only found in sectors with a large environmental footprint. …

We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where … second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to disentangle the incentives for these two types of effort. The contract …