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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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Incentives for journal editors
Kim, Jinyoung; Koh, Kanghyock - In: The Canadian journal of economics 47 (2014) 1, pp. 348-371
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Grind or gamble? : an experimental analysis of effort and spread seeking in contests
Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Wengström, Erik - 2017
We conduct a contest experiment where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory we observe substantial investments in spread. We find that both types of...
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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis
Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2020
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202406
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Why is Harvard #1? Governance and the Dominance of US Universities
Mehta, Shailendra - 2012
This paper examines three related puzzles: 1) Why do US universities dominate the global rankings? 2) Within US universities, why is Harvard University usually ranked at the top? 3) While most universities take centuries to acquire a global reputation how have many US universities leapfrogged to...
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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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