contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this … especially for groups on the losing side of the contest: Given the same level of sunk costs, contributions to the public good are … lower for groups which failed to be successful in the preceding between-group contest. Furthermore, this detrimental effect …

advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for two reasons: First, the incentive to free-ride is smaller in inter …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

how group identity impacts the provision of a public good in a contest situation with different prize sharing rules. We …

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …