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To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team …
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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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-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is analyzed within the framework of rank …-order tournaments which are frequently used in practice. Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because … the main idea of a tournament is inducing incentives by making workers compare themselves with their opponents. We …
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Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2 …
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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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