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Tournaments for the Endogenous Allocating of Prizes within Workteams - Theory and Experimental Evidence

Sutter, Matthias - 2004

We present a model where compensation within a workteam is determined endogenously by the use of a rank-order tournament. Team members compete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prize within the team. The implementation of a proposal requires the approval of other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072692

Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141695

Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

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Economics research in Canada: A long-run assessment of journal publications

Davies, James B.; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - 2007

We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals' impact factors, and (ii) the 'Canadian Journal of Economics'. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000....

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Economics research in Canada: A long-run assessment of journal publications

Davies, James B.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2007

We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals? impact factors, and (ii) the Canadian Journal of Economics. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000. Canadian...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293414

The impact of naive advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games

Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naive advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments: An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007

, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing …

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The Impact of Naïve Advice and Observational Learning in Beauty-contest Games

Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naïve advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325406

Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007

, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427509

Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

We present a model where compensation within a workteam is determinedendogenously by the use of a rank-order tournament. Team memberscompete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prizewithin the team. The implementation of a proposal requires the approvalof other team...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866847