through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … effects on observed trust in which participants' relative performance framed trusting behavior. -- Trust ; incentives …

through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … effects on observed trust in which participants' relative performance framed trusting behavior …

through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … effects on observed trust in which participants’ relative performance framed trusting behavior. …

We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads … high school grades and each pair was randomly assigned to one of three different tournaments. Random assignment neutralizes … tournaments with large spreads negatively affects the performance of risk-averse students, while it does not produce any effect on …

wrong. It violates the predictions and real‑world observations of the economics of tournaments. I explain the similarities … in the economics of tournaments and standard setting. I then examine the actual payouts that participants in real …-world sports tournaments receive and find that the prize for winning the tournament does not approach zero. No firm would enter a …

This paper examines the relation between tournament incentives and reserve management. We find a positive relation … between internal tournament incentives and reserve errors, implying that a larger pay gap as a tournament prize induces vice … profitability. In addition, we find the impact of internal tournament incentives on the reserve error is more pronounced for larger …

and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group …