The first shall be last: serial position effects in the case contestants evaluate each other

We analyze competitions where the contestants evaluate each other and find the first contestant to be disadvantaged. We suspect that this is due to information diffusion, Bayesian belief updating taking place in course of the contest and initial uncertainty about a contestant's relative quality.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Haigner, Stefan D. ; Jenewein, Stefan ; Müller, Hans-Christian ; Wakolbinger, Florian
Institutions:	Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Subject:	Serial Position Effects \| Ordering Effects

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	DICE Discussion Papers. - ISSN 2190-9938.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 14
Classification:	C12 - Hypothesis Testing ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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