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Do tournaments with superstars encourage or discourage competition?
Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl T. - 2017
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single … superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately, we collect and explore data from four sources: men's and women … replication of Brown's (2011) study. Empirically, we find little robust evidence of the superstar effect in any of our datasets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647661
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The incentive effects of tournaments and peer effects in team production : evidence from esports
Mao, Eric - In: Journal of sports economics 24 (2023) 2, pp. 174-192
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The pros and cons of workplace tournaments : tournaments can outperform other compensation schemes such as piece-rate and fixed wage contracts
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2016
Tournaments are commonly used in the workplace to determine promotion, assign bonuses, and motivate personal development. Tournament-based contracts can be very effective in eliciting high effort, often outperforming other compensation contracts, but they can also have negative consequences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554844
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The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments
Ryvkin, Dmitry; Drugov, Mikhail - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 4, pp. 1587-1626
In winner-take-all tournaments, agents' performance is determined jointly by effort and luck, and the top performer is rewarded. We study the impact of the ''shape of luck'' -- the details of the distribution of performance shocks -- on incentives in such settings. We are concerned with the...
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Competition and risk-taking
Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart; Thon, Max - 2022
potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition … that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337710
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Cooperate or compete? : the impact of vertical wage dispersion on employees’ behavior in tournaments
Guo, Lan; Huo, Kun; Libby, Theresa - In: Management accounting research 58 (2023), pp. 1-12
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Competition and risk-taking
Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart; Thon, Max - 2022 - Updated version
potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition … that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438624
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The persistent effect of competition on prosociality
Kosse, Fabian; Rajan, Ranjita; Tincani, Michela M. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428015
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Effort maximization in asymmetric N-person contest games
Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper provides existence and characterization of the optimal contest success function under the condition that the objective of the contest designer is total effort maximization among n heterogeneous players. Heterogeneity of players makes active participation of a player in equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861488
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Effort maximization in asymmetric n-Person contest games
Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - 2009
This paper provides existence and characterization of the optimal contest success function under the condition that the objective of the contest designer is total effort maximization among n heterogeneous players. Heterogeneity of players makes active participation of a player in equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872390