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Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2010

The characteristics of endogenously determined sharing rules and the group-size paradox are studied in a model of group contest with the following features: (i) The prize has mixed privatepublic good characteristics. (ii) Groups can differ in marginal cost of effort and their membership size....

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Holden, Richard T. - 2006

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Hu, Shengsui; Malevergne, Yannick; Sornette, Didier - 2009

We develop a principal-agent model based on a sequential game played by a representative investor and a fund manager in an asymmetric information framework. The model shows that investors' perceptions of the fund market play the key role in the fund's fee-setting mechanism. The managers' true...

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Student effort : standards vs. tournaments

Landeras, Pedro - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 7/9, pp. 965-969

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Nomination contests : theory and empirical evidence from professional soccer

Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2009

This paper develops a theory of contests based on perceived abilities, and provides evidence for the predictions of … this theory using panel data from professional soccer. We examine how soccer players perform in club matches during the … significant effect. We also find support for the theory that players whose nomination is close to certain reduce their effort in …

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Fairness and desert in tournaments

Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - In: Games and economic behavior 69 (2010) 2, pp. 346-364

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Follower payoffs in symmetric duopoly games

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Political culture and discrimination in contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2010

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...

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History dependence and the formation of social preferences : an experimental study

Cooper, David J.; Stockman, Carol Kraker - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 49 (2011) 2, pp. 540-563

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