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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262021
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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703572
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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex … players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267652
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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex … players’ incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566466
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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan
Booth, Alison L.; Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653112
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Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show
Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019
We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance – in favour of boys – across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005883
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Risk taking behavior in tournaments: evidence from the NBA
Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269537
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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando A.; Simmons, Rob - 2015
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513226
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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando A.; Simmons, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214033
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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA
Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562542