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Ulrichshofer, Anna; Walzl, Markus - 2020

by Bénabou and Tirole (2016), we demonstrate that rankings can reduce welfare distortions of optimal screening contracts …

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New forms of competition in higher education1

Musselin, Christine - In: Socio-economic review 16 (2018) 3, pp. 657-683

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Know when to run : recommendations in crowdsourcing contests

Mo, Jiahui; Sarkar, Sumit; Menon, Syam - In: Management information systems : mis quarterly 42 (2018) 3, pp. 919-944

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Risk Taking in Winner-Take-AllCompetition

Kräkel, Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Przemeck, Judith - Universität <Bonn> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher … - 2008

We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players.At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stagetwo, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneouslyinvest in a winner-take-all competition. The game is solved theoreticallyand then tested by using...

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Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2004

essential for the rationalization of (efficiency-enhancing) tournaments. In this paper we propose an alternative rationalization … of tournaments focusing on a fully informed principal whose objective is to maximize a weighted average of the …

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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous …

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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 … tournaments (i.e., tournaments that are intertemporally linked), which also enhances incentives. …

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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263076

Preemptive Behavior in Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents

Jost, Peter-Jürgen; Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequential. We show that … agents’ strategic behavior in sequential-move tournaments significantly differ from the one in simultaneous-move tournaments …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263117

Risk Taking in Winner-Take-All Competition

Kräkel, Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Przemeck, Judith - 2008

We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players. At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition The game is solved theoretically and then tested by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264918