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Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study
Cason, Timothy; Masters, William; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single …-take-all tournament. The proportional-prize contest performs better by limiting the degree to which heterogeneity among contestants …
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Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence
Shupp, Robert; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Many resource allocation contests have the property that individuals undertake costly actions to appropriate a potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259038
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The Paradox of Misaligned Profiling: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Holt, Charles; Kydd, Andrew; Razzolini, Laura; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
subjects are consistent with the qualitative patterns predicted by theory. However, we also find several interesting behavioral … deviations from the theory. …
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