Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?

We study the relative effectiveness of contracts that are framed either in terms of bonuses or penalties. In one set of treatments subjects know at the time of effort provision whether they have achieved the bonus / avoided the penalty. In another set of treatments subjects only learn the success of...

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Main Authors: De Quidt, Jonathan, Fallucchi, Francesco, Kölle, Felix, Nosenzo, Daniele, Quercia, Simone
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Published: Springer 2017
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author De Quidt, Jonathan
Fallucchi, Francesco
Kölle, Felix
Nosenzo, Daniele
Quercia, Simone
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Fallucchi, Francesco
Kölle, Felix
Nosenzo, Daniele
Quercia, Simone
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description We study the relative effectiveness of contracts that are framed either in terms of bonuses or penalties. In one set of treatments subjects know at the time of effort provision whether they have achieved the bonus / avoided the penalty. In another set of treatments subjects only learn the success of their performance at the end of the task. We fail to observe a contract framing effect in either condition: effort provision is statistically indistinguishable under bonus and penalty contracts.
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spelling nottingham-453972020-05-04T19:24:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45397/ Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing? De Quidt, Jonathan Fallucchi, Francesco Kölle, Felix Nosenzo, Daniele Quercia, Simone We study the relative effectiveness of contracts that are framed either in terms of bonuses or penalties. In one set of treatments subjects know at the time of effort provision whether they have achieved the bonus / avoided the penalty. In another set of treatments subjects only learn the success of their performance at the end of the task. We fail to observe a contract framing effect in either condition: effort provision is statistically indistinguishable under bonus and penalty contracts. Springer 2017-12-30 Article PeerReviewed De Quidt, Jonathan, Fallucchi, Francesco, Kölle, Felix, Nosenzo, Daniele and Quercia, Simone (2017) Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing? Journal of the Economic Science Association, 3 (2). pp. 174-182. ISSN 2199-6776 contract framing; bonus; penalty; fine; loss aversion https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40881-017-0039-9 doi:10.1007/s40881-017-0039-9 doi:10.1007/s40881-017-0039-9
spellingShingle contract framing; bonus; penalty; fine; loss aversion
De Quidt, Jonathan
Fallucchi, Francesco
Kölle, Felix
Nosenzo, Daniele
Quercia, Simone
Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
title Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
title_full Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
title_fullStr Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
title_full_unstemmed Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
title_short Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
title_sort bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?
topic contract framing; bonus; penalty; fine; loss aversion
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45397/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45397/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45397/