The work on incomplete contracts cited by the prize committee began in the summer of
1983, but it may be useful to say a bit about how I reached that point. As a graduate student …

The study of effort provision in a controlled setting is a key research area in experimental
economics. There are two major methodological paradigms in this literature: stated effort …

We investigate the nature of continuous time strategic interaction in public-goods games. In
one set of treatments, four subjects make contribution decisions in continuous time during a …

We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their
fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences …

This chapter has two distinct parts. In Sections 2, 3, and 4 we discuss a number of technical
dimensions pertaining to the implementation of communication in laboratory experiments. 1 …

The notion of contracts as reference points provides the basis for a deeper understanding of
important phenomena such as the employment contract, vertical integration, firm scope …

We explore how groups deliberate and decide on ideas in an experiment with
communication. We find that gender biases play a significant role in which group members …

Modern communication technologies enable efficient exchange of information but often
sacrifice direct human interaction inherent in more traditional forms of communication. This …

We conducted a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of
motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk …

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how advice by a more experienced and better-
informed person affects an individual's entry into a real-effort tournament and the gender …