provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been … incentives - they win more games when there is still a chance to reach the playoffs and lose more after being eliminated from …

Tournaments are designed to enhance participants' effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase … international diving tournaments. We find that competitors systematically underperform when ranked closer to the top, despite higher … incentives to perform well. …

Tournaments are designed to enhance participants’ effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase … international diving tournaments. We find that competitors systematically underperform when ranked closer to the top, despite higher … incentives to perform well. …

participating in international weightlifting competitions. Weightlifting competitions are multistage tournaments with the unique … ranking. Second, athletes systematically underperform when ranked closer to the top, despite higher incentives to perform well …

Tournaments are designed to enhance participants’ effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase … international diving tournaments. We find that competitors systematically underperform when ranked closer to the top, despite higher … incentives to perform well. …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We … reduction of effort provision from favorite teams. As the number of games per team changes between different seasons, we can … also investigate the effect of a changing spread between winner and loser prize. In line with theory, teams reduce effort …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …