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Prize and risk-taking strategy in tournaments : evidence from professional poker players
Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the television game show World Poker Tour as a natural experiment. The results show that professional players strategically choose the degree of risk taking depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002455855
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Game, set, and match : do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501873
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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631427
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Envy and compassion in tournaments
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415111
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Preemptive behavior in sequential tournaments
Jost, Peter-J.; Kräkel, Matthias - 2000
Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequentially. We show that agents' strategic behavior significantly differs in sequential tournaments compared to simultaneous tournaments. In a sequential tournament, under certain conditions the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335241
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A product market theory of worker training
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004 - revised: February 2004
employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402873
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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010
probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941764
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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations
Kräkel, Matthias (contributor) - 2006
Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377751
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Interdependency in performance
Haraguchi, Kelii H. (contributor);  … - 2007
We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive process, allowing us to sign and quantify the endogenous interactions between competitors. Doing so speaks to significant regularities in the data that suggest that a player's own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003603597
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How many winners are good to have? : On tournaments with sabotage
Harbring, Christine (contributor);  … - 2005
From an employer's perspective a tournament should induce agents to exert productive activities but refrain from destructive ones. We experimentally test the predictive power of a tournament model which suggests that within a reasonable framework productive and destructive activities are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003248842