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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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New forms of competition in higher education1
Musselin, Christine - In: Socio-economic review 16 (2018) 3, pp. 657-683
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Social comparison and optimal contracts in competition for managerial talent
Ulrichshofer, Anna; Walzl, Markus - 2020
by Bénabou and Tirole (2016), we demonstrate that rankings can reduce welfare distortions of optimal screening contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253115
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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Academic economists today are caught in a Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261791
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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/10010262248
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263059
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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
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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