differences in betting odds or rankings to measure ability differences, our results support standard tournament theory as we find … shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We … reduction of effort provision from favorite teams. As the number of games per team changes between different seasons, we can … also investigate the effect of a changing spread between winner and loser prize. In line with theory, teams reduce effort …

confidence. … properties as well as underlying mechanisms (e.g., effort, risk, confidence and stress) of ability configurations in contests …: The role of risk and confidence Target Groups Researchers and students in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship …

, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …

differences in betting odds or rankings to measure ability differences, our results support standard tournament theory as we find … shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …

two important yet less extensively examined aspects of corporate governance in banks: executive team expertise and non … corporate governance matter. Higher executive team expertise is associated with superior bank outcomes regarding performance …. Moreover, the results indicate that strong incentives in capital market divisions induced excessively high risks in the capital …