TY - RPRT AU - Conrads, Julian AU - Irlenbusch, Bernd AU - Rilke, Rainer Michael AU - Walkowitz, Gari TI - Lying and Team Incentives PY - 2011/Sep/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 5968 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5968 AB - We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these compensation schemes. KW - lying KW - compensation schemes KW - team KW - experiment ER -