One of the main issues of the reform regarding a professor’s remuneration at German universitiesis the introduction of a performance-dependent salary. This paper applies relative rank ordertournaments to special performance benefits at university level. It turns out that the awardingprocedure...

Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-basedincentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affectproductivity by changing both workers’ effort and team composition. We present evidencefrom a field experiment...