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Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments
Groh, Christian; Moldovanu, Benny; Sela, Aner; Sunde, Uwe - 2003
competitors according to their ranks. For tournaments with four players we find optimal seedings with respect to three different … ranked teams; 3) maximization of the win probability for the top player. In addition, we find the seedings ensuring that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333743
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Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments
Groh, Christian; Moldovanu, Benny; Sela, Aner; Sunde, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
competitors according to their ranks. For tournaments with four players we find optimal seedings with respect to three different … ranked teams; 3) maximization of the win probability for the top player. In addition, we find the seedings ensuring that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005739681
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Optimal seedings in elimination tournaments
Groh, Christian; Moldovanu, Benny; Sela, Aner; Sunde, Uwe - 2003
competitors according to their ranks. For tournaments with four players we find optimal seedings with respect to three different … ranked teams; 3) maximization of the win probability for the top player. In addition, we find the seedings ensuring that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343975
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Single- and Double-Elimination All-Pay Tournaments
Deck, Cary; Kimbrough, Erik O. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014
Tournaments consisting of iterative matches are a common mechanism for determining how to allocate a prize. While participants are focused on their own outcomes, tournament organizers often have objectives such as maximizing the total investment or effort by the participants over the course of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817395
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256723
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe - 2003
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been tested empirically before; and (ii) whether incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261647
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279320
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The effects of prize spread and noise in elimination tournaments: A natural field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282278
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2011
We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326149
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The Predictive Power of Noisy Elimination Tournaments
Ryvkin, Dmitry - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2005
An elimination tournament matches players pairwise and promotes the winners to a subsequent round where the procedure is repeated. In the presence of idiosyncratic noise the tournament turns into a probabilistic mechanism that reveals the ranking of players imperfectly. I assess theoretically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086623