Eisenkopf, Gerald; Teyssier, Sabrina - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2009
context. We investigate the impact of social preferences in a tournament using data from a laboratory experiment with two … treatments. In a conentional tournament, an agent receives either the full prize or no prize at all. The other tournament … chooses between a fair and an unfair contract. Standard economic theory predicts the same effort provision in all situations …