between incentives and sorting. …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …

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. …

, it is not surprising that one commonly used motivator is the promotion tournament. In such tournaments, agents compete to … advance to positions at higher organizational levels. Though these tournaments are common, little research has empirically …

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We …

literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …

literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …

literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …