We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season … majority of cases and only beneficial in terms of a higher winning probability if a team is behind with a rather large amount …

– truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …

The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought … database of NBA players affords a singular opportunity to measure confidence directly from behavior, avoiding bias from self …

evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed …

This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996 …, conditional on team performance, team payroll, and a variety of coaching quality indicators. There were also statistically …. Together, these findings do not suggest that black NBA coaches are subject to racial discrimination in entry, pay or retention. …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …