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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...
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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...
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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...
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A product market theory of worker training
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004 - revised: February 2004
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a … 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 …
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Envy and compassion in tournaments
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
than purely self-interested agents for a given prize structure. Contrary to standard tournament theory first-best efforts …
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Allocating awards across noncomparable categories
Magee, Lonnie; Veall, Michael R. - 2002
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship competition. …
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The pied piper : prizes, incentives, and motivation crowding-in
Bruni, Luigino; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; … - 2019
In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by both historical considerations and philosophical...
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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …
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Discrimination as a competitive device : the case of local television news
Myers, Caitlin K. (contributor) - 2005
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189635
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Dynamic female labor supply
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
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