collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …

tournaments ; incentives ; prize spread ; performance measurement ; field experiment …We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding … prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments …

collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …

We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding … prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments …

collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …

We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize … spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in …