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

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012

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

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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments:Evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler); Höcker, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use ofdata from the NBA season …

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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; Simmons, Robert - 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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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design

Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013

Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2 …

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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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Girls' and boys' performance in competitions : what we can learn from a Korean quiz show

Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019

We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956218

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

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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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Emotions and the Optimality of Unfair Tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

-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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