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Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments
Groh, Christian; Moldovanu, Benny; Sela, Aner; Sunde, Uwe - 2003
competitors according to their ranks. For tournaments with four players we find optimal seedings with respect to three different … ranked teams; 3) maximization of the win probability for the top player. In addition, we find the seedings ensuring that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333743
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Optimal seedings in elimination tournaments
Groh, Christian; Moldovanu, Benny; Sela, Aner; Sunde, Uwe - 2003
competitors according to their ranks. For tournaments with four players we find optimal seedings with respect to three different … ranked teams; 3) maximization of the win probability for the top player. In addition, we find the seedings ensuring that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343975
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Single- and double-elimination all-pay tournaments
Deck, Cary A.; Kimbrough, Erik O. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 116 (2015), pp. 416-429
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The third place game
Nissim, Netanel; Sela, Aner - In: Journal of sports economics 21 (2020) 1, pp. 64-86
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Optimal seedings in interdependent contests
Cohen, Chen; Rabi, Ishay; Sela, Aner - 2021
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe - 2003
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been tested empirically before; and (ii) whether incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261647
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The effects of prize spread and noise in elimination tournaments: A natural field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282278
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2011
We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326149
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Who has the advantage? : an economic exploration of winning in men's professional tennis
Ovaska, Tomi; Sumell, Albert J. - In: The American economist : journal of Omnicron Delta … 59 (2014) 1, pp. 34-51
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The effects of prize and noise in elimination tournaments : a natural field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720760