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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 - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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/10005739681
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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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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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Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data
Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005233835