This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

academia have been partially explained by “competitive pressures”, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women’s cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …

help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects … since the underdogs almost never quit the competition even when lagging significantly behind, and frontrunners do not slack …

of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament in which equilibrium efforts are the same in both stages. We … compare this treatment to a strategically equivalent one-stage tournament and to another two-stage tournament with a more … predictions and compared to the equivalent one-stage tournament. The results for the more convex two-stage tournament show that …

the tournament even further since output tends to become more slipshod. …