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Emotions and the Optimality of Unfair Tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias - 2005

-order tournaments which are frequently used in practice. Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because … from emotional workers. In this case, he clearly prefers unfair to fair tournaments. Furthermore, the concept of emotions … is used to explain the puzzling findings on the oversupply of effort in experimental tournaments. …

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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Booth, Alison L.; Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...

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Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show

Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019

We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance – in favour of boys – across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...

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Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …

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Splitting Leagues

Kräkel, Matthias - 2003

Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative … tournaments (i.e., tournaments that are intertemporally linked), which also enhances incentives. …

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Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

analysed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263111

Preemptive Behavior in Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents

Jost, Peter-Jürgen; Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequential. We show that … agents’ strategic behavior in sequential-move tournaments significantly differ from the one in simultaneous-move tournaments …

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Risk taking behavior in tournaments: evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …

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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules

Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando A.; Simmons, Rob - 2015

We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...

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A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012

-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

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