relative performance contracts, such as rank-order tournaments, can be optimal even though the extant explanations for the …

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 …

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an …

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 …

the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous …

recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …