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Intertemporal effort provision in sequential tournaments : conference paper
Klein, Arnd Heinrich; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013
This paper analyzes intertemporal effort provision in two-stage tournaments. A principal with a fixed budget for prizes faces two risk-neutral agents. He observes noisy signals of effort in both periods. His goal is to maximize either total efforts (perfect substitutes) or the product of first-...
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Electives shopping, grading competition, and grading norms
Gregor, Martin - 2018
) intensifies the competition: in particular, both top and mean realized scores increase. To tame incentives to provide excessively …
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Economists Owe Ecology an Apology
Zetland, David - 2013
This apology is neither a wholesale rejection of economic thought and perspective nor an admission of error in our understanding of ecological values or human impacts on the environment. Life is complex. It's an apology for the unintended damage that's resulted from misapplying economic ideas:...
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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test
Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …
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Complacency and giving up across repeated tournaments : evidence from the field
Berger, Leslie; Klassen, Kenneth J.; Libby, Theresa; … - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 25 (2013), pp. 143-167
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Measuring the sorting and incentive effects of tournament prizes
Davies, Tim; Stoian, Adrian - In: The American economist : journal of Omnicron Delta … 59 (2014) 2, pp. 153-166
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …
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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...
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Sanctioning and trustworthiness across ethnic groups : experimental evidence from Afghanistan
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Levely, Ian - 2018
We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...
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Sanctioning and trustworthiness across ethnic groups : experimental evidence from Afghanistan
Levely, Ian; Bartoš, Vojtěch - 2018
We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904803