Incentive Reversal
发现,当所有代理人获得更高奖励时,反而可能减少付出努力的人数,即使他们都是完全理性的。研究给出了组织技术易受激励反转影响的充要条件,即一定程度的互补性即可导致该现象。
By incentive reversal we refer to situations in which an increase in rewards for all agents results in fewer agents exerting effort. We show that externalities among peers may give rise to such intriguing situations even when all agents are fully rational. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the organizational technology so that it will be susceptible to incentive reversal. The condition implies that some degree of complementarity is enough to allow incentive reversal.