Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one’s performance ranking in a flat-wage environment. We find … that average effort is higher when individuals are informed about their relative performance. However, ranking feedback … others’ work or by increasing artificially their own performance. Introducing sabotage opportunities has a strong detrimental …