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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...

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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 …

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Competing for influence in networks through strategic targeting

Comola, Margherita; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - 2024

We experimentally investigate how players with opposing views compete for influence through strategic targeting in networks. We varied the network structure, the relative influence of the opponent, and the heterogeneity of the nodes' initial opinions. Although most players adopted a...

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Dynamic incentive effects of heterogeneity in multi-stage promotion contests

Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe - 2014

This paper shows that the incentive effects of heterogeneity may be positive rather than negative in dynamic contests with multiple stages. In particular, the well-studied adverse effects of heterogeneity in static interactions are compensated by positive continuation-value and selection...

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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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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 …

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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)....

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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

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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