pressure: The effect of asymmetric contests on effort, stress and performance -- Performance in contests: The role of risk and … properties as well as underlying mechanisms (e.g., effort, risk, confidence and stress) of ability configurations in contests …: The role of risk and confidence Target Groups Researchers and students in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship …

We investigated the effect of large changes in financial incentives on the process of decision-making by measuring … process of decision-making under risk … increased risk aversion and physiological arousal, and by shifts in attention toward safer alternatives. These effects were …

This study provides evidence that managerial incentives, shaped by compensation contracts, help to explain the …-based contract, makes investment decisions for a firm that faces time-varying volatility. The contract creates incentives that affect …

findings highlight the roles of risk, incentives, and bargaining power in shaping contracts … higher-powered incentives when they contracted with limited partners than when they contracted with unlimited partners. A …

further improved the terms of unlimited partners in limited firms. These findings highlight the roles of risk, incentives, and … shares than their unlimited partners. Unlimited partners in turn received higher-powered incentives when they contracted with …

Does a more risk-averse individual put greater effort to abide by legal rules than the less risk-averse? Or are the … criminals really a race apart who is exceptionally risk prone? This paper examines the relationship between the law …-abiding effort of an individual and his degree of risk aversion. It is shown that a monotone positive relationship between risk …

their observations to argue that increased incentives appear to change risk attitudes, leading to greater risk aversion …Holt and Laury, AER 2002, develop an experimental design to determine the risk aversion of an individual. They use … the stakes still affects measured risk aversion, but the effect is only one-half of the apparent effect when one does not …

While extensive research examines the relation between option incentives in executive compensation and risk-taking by … leverage having a dampening effect on the relation between managerial risk-taking and equity-linked incentives. We empirically … between option incentives and managerial risk-taking …