processes and the inherent variability of competitors' effort choices introduce uncertainty to tournament settings with respect … uncertainty leads to more excess of effort if compared to optimality (Avrahami et al., 2007). This paper experimentally … responses, and mainly overestimate their opponents. Leveling uncertainty influences both overshooting and the precision of …

depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of un-certainty … in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn, is expected to increase the efforts made by competing agents (Cowen and … of uncertainty (sampling occasions of productions, 1 or 3), cost of production (high or low), cost symmetry (asymmetric …

environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature …

Traditionally, researchers have had difficulty testing the relationship between the degree of risk or uncertainty in …

We examine the impact of the cultural norm of uncertainty avoidance on employee stock option (ESO) exercise behaviour … using proprietary data from a multinational firm. We find that employees from countries with higher levels of uncertainty … that employee attitudes towards uncertainty influence stock option exercise behaviours. Our findings further help to …