This chapter reviews studies conducted in naturally occurring work environments or in the
laboratory on the impact of the provision of performance feedback and peer effects on …

I introduce and study dynamic persuasion mechanisms. A principal privately observes the
evolution of a stochastic process and sends messages over time to an agent. The agent …

Recent open innovation literature indicates increasing concern about the quality of
crowdsourced ideas. Building on a framework of creativity capability, rooted in behavioral …

We study contests for innovation with learning about the innovation's feasibility and
opponents' outcomes. We characterize contests that maximize innovation when the designer …

Performance rankings are a very common workplace management practice. Behavioral
theories suggest that providing performance rankings to employees, even without pecuniary …

Competitive situations resembling contests are ubiquitous in modern economic landscape.
In a contest, economic agents expend costly effort to vie for limited prizes, and they are …

We study information as an incentive device in a dynamic moral hazard framework. An agent
works on a task of uncertain difficulty, modeled as the duration of required effort. The …

It is notoriously difficult to provide outside parties with adequate incentives for innovation.
Contests—in which solvers compete for a prize offered by the contest holder—have been …

We consider a multi-battle team contest in which players from two rival teams form pairwise
matches to fight in distinct component battles, which are carried out sequentially or (partially) …

Open innovation contests are a popular way to tap into the creativity of customers. Many
firms host multiple, successive open innovation contests in response to different, creative …