) intensifies the competition: in particular, both top and mean realized scores increase. To tame incentives to provide excessively …

that in two-player contests the optimal delegation involves giving the agent incentives to maximize principal's payoff … while in contests with more than two players incentives will be different from principal's payoff maximization. Further …

We examine theoretically and experimentally how combining between-team and within-team incentives affects behavior in … team tournaments. Theory predicts that free-riding is likely to occur when there are only between-team incentives, and … offering within-team incentives may solve this problem. However, if individuals collude, then within-team incentives may not be …