social preferences. In a single-period setting, only moderately altruistic leaders use praise as a motivation tool, whereas …

motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions …

-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with …

-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …

the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …

the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …