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such doping within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified which determine …
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assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …
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- players is high or low, while the most efficient team of the tournament is not affected by the wage structure. The U …
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between the agents and thus creates a distortion of efficiency in the coalition. We employ a simple tournament setting where …
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-order tournament. Perceived entitlements are sensitive to how hard an agent has worked relative to her rival, and agents are loss … averse around their meritocratically determined endogenous reference points. In a fair tournament sufficiently large desert … average. In an unfair tournament, where one agent is advantaged, the equilibrium is symmetric in the absence of desert, but …
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This short paper aims to find an empirical evidence that al Qaeda behaves as a contest organizer rewarding an indivisible prize – namely, official membership and economic rewards – to candidate extremists groups. Would-be terrorists must then compete with each other to prove their commitment...
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differences in betting odds or rankings to measure ability differences, our results support standard tournament theory as we find …
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Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...
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This paper finds an empirical evidence that al Qaeda behaves as a contest organizer rewarding a prize to candidate extremist groups. Would-be terrorists must then compete with each other to prove their commitment and ability. Hence to maximize their own probability of winning the prize, each...
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We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals …
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