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Splitting Leagues
Kräkel, Matthias - 2003
Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative … tournaments (i.e., tournaments that are intertemporally linked), which also enhances incentives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263059
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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - 2014
This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409409
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Fake News
Grunewald, Andreas; Kräkel, Matthias - 2017
In the last decade, social media and the Internet have amplified the possibility to spread false information, a.k.a. fake news, which has become a serious threat to the credibility of politicians, organizations, and other decision makers. This paper proposes a framework for investigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816479
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Risk Taking in Winner-Take-All Competition
Kräkel, Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Przemeck, Judith - 2008
We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players. At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition. The game is solved theoretically and then tested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333998
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Emotions and the Optimality of Unfair Tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias - 2005
-order tournaments which are frequently used in practice. Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because … from emotional workers. In this case, he clearly prefers unfair to fair tournaments. Furthermore, the concept of emotions … is used to explain the puzzling findings on the oversupply of effort in experimental tournaments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334042
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Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2008
recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334074
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262021
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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
analysed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263111
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Preemptive Behavior in Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents
Jost, Peter-Jürgen; Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequential. We show that … agents’ strategic behavior in sequential-move tournaments significantly differ from the one in simultaneous-move tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263117
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Risk Taking in Winner-Take-All Competition
Kräkel, Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Przemeck, Judith - 2008
We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players. At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition The game is solved theoretically and then tested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264918