Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012 - This version: 26th January 2012
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an … Championships, where a rule change in 2009 basically constituted a natural experiment that introduced one costless opportunity for … qualified ones. From a survey among spectators, we show that sabotage is welfare-reducing. -- tournaments ; sabotage ; Judo …