affects the performance of firms that increase the power of the incentive schemes. In a laboratory experiment, we let subjects …

themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in … distribution ; motivation ; experiment …

differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap …

)honest behaviour from other possible sources of influence. Second, to my best knowledge this is the first experiment which investigates …

-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … the production period, and continuously updated feedback. The pay schemes are a piece rate payment scheme and a winner …

having managers cheat to win. We explore tournament theory to detail its vulnerabilities to various forms of cheating …