find that a more convex prize spread increases performance in the second round at the expense of first-round performance … historically have relatively stable performance as compared to stores with more noisy performance. Publication is forthcoming in …

performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus by outperforming three comparable stores … from the control group over the course of four weeks. Treatment stores received weekly feedback on relative performance …. Control stores were kept unaware of their involvement, so that their performance generates exogenous variation in the relative …

When verifiable performance measures are imperfect, organizations often resort to subjective performance pay. This may … towards specific tasks. We show that subjective performance pay based on evaluation by a biased supervisor has the same … distorting effect on the agent's effort allocation as incentive pay based on an incongruent performance measure. If the principal …

performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus by outperforming three comparable stores … from the control group over the course of four weeks. Treatment stores received weekly feedback on relative performance …. Control stores were kept unaware of their involvement, so that their performance generates exogenous variation in the relative …