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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2006

such doping or cheating within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified …Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an … appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze …

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Doping in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2005

such doping within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified which determine …Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an … appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370525

Preemptive Behavior in Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents

Jost, Peter-Jürgen; Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

: In a sequential-move tournament with heterogeneous agents, there may be either a first-mover or a second-mover advantage …

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017

If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...

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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias (contributor) - 2006

. -- cheating ; contest ; doping ; fraud in research ; tournament … such doping or cheating within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified …Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an …

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Splitting Leagues

Kräkel, Matthias - 2003

Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative competition effect. However, it can be shown that the principal can nevertheless benefit from splitting. First, splitting can be used as a divide-and-rule strategy by the principal...

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Uncertainty, Pay for Performance, and Asymmetric Information

Balmaceda, Felipe - 2010

This article develops a new rationale for the emergence of pay-for-performance contracts where the labor market is competitive, workers are risk averse, and firms are risk neutral and unaware of workers' productivities. The article shows that the prevalence of pay for performance rises and the...

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Prize and Risk-Taking Strategy in Tournaments : Evidence from Professional Poker Players

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the television game show World Poker Tour as a natural experiment. The results show that professional players strategically choose the degree of risk taking depending on the...

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Competition and fatigue at work

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018

We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...

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Contests with doping

Ryvkin, Dmitry - In: Journal of sports economics 14 (2013) 3, pp. 253-275

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