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Heterogeneous Contestants and Effort Provision in Tournaments - an Empirical Investigation with Professional Sports Data

Berger, Johannes; Nieken, Petra - 2010

a highly significant negative impact of the matchup's heterogeneity on joint teame efforts. However, further analysis …

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Incentive Effects in Asymmetric Tournaments Empirical Evidence from the German Hockey League

Nieken, Petra; Stegh, Michael - 2010

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We empirically test this prediction using a large dataset from the German Hockey League. Our results show that indeed the intensity of a game is lower if the teams are more...

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Incentive effects in asymmetric tournaments : empirical evidence from the german hockey league

Nieken, Petra; Stegh, Michael - 2010 - Version: 2010-01-20

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Heterogeneous contestants and effort provision in tournaments : an empirical investigation with professional sports data

Berger, Johannes; Nieken, Petra - 2010

a highly significant negative impact of the matchup's heterogeneity on joint teame efforts. However, further analysis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985609

Motivated procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to complete. This study provides a rigorous...

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Motivated procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024

Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’....

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...

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Strategic Investment Decisions in Multi-Stage Contests with Heterogeneous Players

Deutscher, Christian - 2019

subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the current (subsequent) contest is sufficiently large (small). We confirm … are (i) less likely to be fielded when the heterogeneity in the current match increases and (ii) more likely to receive a … fifth yellow card in the current match when the heterogeneity in the next match increases or when the heterogeneity in the …

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The Cooperative Consequences of Contests

Lien, Jaimie W.; Zheng, Jie; Zhuo, Yilin - 2021

Although contests are recognized theoretically as a highly effective method of motivation, the competitive nature of contests may generate unintended negative effects on social interactions in more general settings beyond contests. Using a laboratory experiment of real effort tasks with...

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The acceptability of layoffs and pay cuts: comparing North America with Germany

Gerlach, Knut; Levine, David; Stephan, Gesine; Struck, Olaf - 2006

Substantial evidence shows that North Americans are generally more accepting of the market than Europeans and attribute market outcomes to a larger degree to effort or skill. This article discusses the perceived fairness of layoffs and pay cuts in North America and Germany. We expect North...

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