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The pros and cons of workplace tournaments : tournaments can outperform other compensation schemes such as piece-rate and fixed wage contracts
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2016
Tournaments are commonly used in the workplace to determine promotion, assign bonuses, and motivate personal development. Tournament-based contracts can be very effective in eliciting high effort, often outperforming other compensation contracts, but they can also have negative consequences for...
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Impulsive behavior in competition : testing theories of overbidding in rent-seeking contests
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2016
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The pros and cons of workplace tournaments
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569200
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Teams or tournaments? : a field experiment on cooperation and competition in academic achievement
Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita; Nardotto, Mattia; … - 2011 - This version: 23 May, 2011
characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737257
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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433753
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The pros and cons of workplace tournaments
Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Tournaments are commonly used in the workplace to determine promotion, assign bonuses, and motivate personal development. Tournament-based contracts can be very effective in eliciting high effort, often outperforming other compensation contracts, but they can also have negative consequences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573692
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Teams or tournaments? A field experiment on cooperation and competition among university students
Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita; Nardotto, Mattia; … - 2011
characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278661
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Local loop unbundling in the UK does not affect broadband penetration - but it does lead to better service
Nardotto, Mattia - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 28, pp. 311-317
competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up … general advantages of infrastructure-based competition (based on LLU) over service-based competition (based on bitstream). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011505950
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A Retrospective Study of State Aid Control in the German Broadband Market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493038
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Teams or tournaments? : a field experiment on cooperation and competition among university students
Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita; Nardotto, Mattia; … - 2011
characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces … ; incentives ; competition ; cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310963