A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …

obtain evidence on the effect of stronger incentives on productive and destructive effort. Using as control the behavior of … the same teams in a competition that experienced no changes in incentives, we provide differences-in-differences estimates …, and that indeed attendance suffered as a result of the incentive change. Thus, teams responded to stronger incentives, but …

In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance … of several round-robin tournaments, monotonic aggregating rules always leave open such a possibility. Then we consider …

composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

essential for the rationalization of (efficiency-enhancing) tournaments. In this Paper we propose an alternative rationalization … of tournaments focusing on a fully informed principal whose objective is to maximize a weighted average of the …

We compare the performance of markets and tournaments as allocative mechanisms in an economy with borrowing constraints … higher aggregate consumption because of the waste associated with the production of signals under tournaments. When borrowing … constraints are present, however, tournaments dominate markets in terms of aggregate output and, for sufficiently powerful …

performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …