
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1867043
handle: 10419/51963 , 10419/49675
Efficiency under contractual incompleteness often requires voluntary cooperation in situations where self-regarding incentives for contractual compliance are present as well. Here we provide a comprehensive experimental analysis based on the gift-exchange game of how explicit and implicit incentives affect cooperation. We first show that there is substantial cooperation under non-incentive compatible contracts. Incentive-compatible contracts induce best-reply effort and crowd out any voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust contracts without any incentives and implicit incentives coming from repeated interaction. Implicit incentives have a strong positive effect on effort only under non-incentive compatible contracts.
principal-agent games; gift-exchange experiments; incomplete contracts, explicit incentives; implicit incentives; repeated games; separability; experiments, principal-agent games, ddc:330, separability, principal-agent games, gift-exchange experiments, incomplete contracts, explicit incentives, implicit incentives, repeated games, separability, experiments, experiments, explicit incentives, repeated games, implicit incentives, C90, gift-exchange experiments, C70, incomplete contracts, explicit incentives, incomplete contracts, jel: jel:C70, jel: jel:C90
principal-agent games; gift-exchange experiments; incomplete contracts, explicit incentives; implicit incentives; repeated games; separability; experiments, principal-agent games, ddc:330, separability, principal-agent games, gift-exchange experiments, incomplete contracts, explicit incentives, implicit incentives, repeated games, separability, experiments, experiments, explicit incentives, repeated games, implicit incentives, C90, gift-exchange experiments, C70, incomplete contracts, explicit incentives, incomplete contracts, jel: jel:C70, jel: jel:C90
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