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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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Intellectual property rights and the evolution of scientific journals as knowledge platforms

Fehder, Daniel C.; Murray, Fiona; Stern, Scott - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 36 (2014) C, pp. 83-94

downstream demand for knowledge that is initially disclosed through scientific publication in fields where research is generated … and utilized across different institutional settings (i.e., academia versus industry). For scientific discoveries with … knowledge disclosed in a given scientific journal. This paper evaluates the relationship between scientific journal publication …

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Designing dynamic research contests

Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor - 2016

This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...

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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design

Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013

Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2,775 contestants in 755 software algorithm development contests with random assignment. The performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of...

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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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