This paper studies the relationship between the sources ofinnovation and incentives.

Die Frage der regulatorischen Einordnung des technologischen Fortschritts in der lei-tungsgebundenen Energieversorgung rückt vermehrt in den Fokus, da die konventionel-le Kupfernetzebene vor neue Anforderungen gestellt wird, um als kritisches Transport-medium den strukturellen Wandel in der...

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to theoutcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if theteam manager has some information about team members, interventions that the managerundertakes in order to assure...

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division, but not in another...

We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzinga two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion stronglydepends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as ifthey were purely selfish....