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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules

Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando A.; Simmons, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...

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Using "opposing responses" and relative performance to distinguish empirically among alternative models of promotions

DeVaro, Jed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

tournaments, market-based tournaments, and performance standards can be sharply distinguished when promotions induce worker effort …. I also show that market-based tournaments with effort choices can be sharply distinguished from those with human capital … propose a new approach – also requiring simultaneous equations – for empirically distinguishing between classic tournaments …

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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a comprehensive review of experimental research on these three …

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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2012

-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

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A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012

-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Booth, Alison L.; Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...

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Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …

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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

Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

analysed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263111

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

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