University of Pennsylvania
Iwan Barankay is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he studies how to design monetary and non-monetary incentives to raise productivity and cooperation in the workplace or to incite people to be more adherent to a healthy lifestyle. All of his studies use evidence from the field by using experiments to test his ideas and theories inside firms and organizations rather than a lab. Building on insights in contract theory and behavioral economics his work has shown how simple changes to incentive schemes inside the workplace lead to improved profits.