Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?
通过实验室实验，研究在持续竞争压力下，短期提高激励强度是否影响参与者表现，发现虽引发行为反应但未提升总绩效。
If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents’ performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral response but does not boost total performance.