We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … opponent is revealed before the tournament, males increase their performance in the real-effort task especially if the opponent …

We describe a simple computing technique for the tournament choice problem. It rests upon relational modeling and uses …, the minimal covering set, the Banks set, and the tournament equilibrium set are delivered. We present an example of a … tournament on a small set of alternatives, for which the above choice sets are computed and visualized via RelView. The technique …

absolute performance (i.e., piece rate) and a scheme that rewards based on relative performance (i.e., a tournament). Holding … total payments in the tournament constant, performance is higher when the tournament option is winner-take-all compared to a … graduated tournament (i.e., second and third-place performers also receive a payment). Performance is higher in the winner …

effort. They suggest that envy and loss aversion drive behavior in tournaments. Moreover, we show that standard theory …