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After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision

McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2013

Modeling the incentive effects of competitions among employees for promotions or financial rewards, economists have largely ignored the effects of competition on effort provision once the competition is finished. In a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition outcomes affect the...

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Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental design was aimed at disentangling gender...

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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...

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Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?

Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl - 2017

To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...

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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...

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Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2004

essential for the rationalization of (efficiency-enhancing) tournaments. In this paper we propose an alternative rationalization … of tournaments focusing on a fully informed principal whose objective is to maximize a weighted average of the …

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Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …

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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous …

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Tournaments, individualized contracts and career concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloïc - 2005

relative performance contracts, such as rank-order tournaments, can be optimal even though the extant explanations for the … informational spill-overs have profound implications for organizational design and the resulting optimal incentive contracts …. Through the organizational choice and the contracts that it offers individuals, a firm can strategically manipulate the flow …

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Courtesy and idleness: gender differences in team work and team competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - 2005

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...

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