We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … opponent is revealed before the tournament, males increase their performance in the real effort task especially if the opponent …

that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of … potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition …