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
Publisher:	Düsseldorf : Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Subject:	Wettbewerb \| Potenzieller Wettbewerb \| Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit \| Theorie \| Serial Position Effects \| Ordering Effects

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Series:	DICE Discussion Paper ; 14
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-86304-013-0
Other identifiers:	642862540 [GVK] hdl:10419/43861 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:dicedp:14 [RePEc]
Classification:	C12 - Hypothesis Testing ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Source:	EconStor

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