This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an … elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of … players there is a pure-strategy equilibrium in which only the most able contestant engages in sabotage while less able …

We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … females do not differ in their achievements in the real effort task but in their choice of sabotage. Males select … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the …

This paper reviews the relatively small literature on sabotage in contests. It looks at both the formal game …