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other hand, too much competition always makes the equilibrium signaling less informative. -- Signalling ; Competition … violated. It is shown that more competition makes the equilibrium signaling more informative when the level of competition is … moderate. Moreover, the equilibrium signaling can perfectly reveal the ability under a certain level of competition. On the …
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We study signaling in dynamic contests with heterogeneous players. A privately-informed challenger faces a sequence of rivals of known types. The type of future rivals determines which signal the challenger wants to produce, whereas the strategic response of current rivals determines the extent...
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I study a multi-sender signaling game between an uninformed decision maker and two senders with common private information and conflicting interests. Senders can misreport information at a cost that is tied to the size of the misrepresentation. The main results concern the amount of information...
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In dynamic promotion contests, where performance measurement is noisy and ordinal, selection can be improved by biasing later stages in favor of early leaders. Even in the worst-case scenario, where noise swamps ability differences in determining relative performance, optimal bias is i) strictly...
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We consider the design of contests for n agents when the principal can choose both the prize profile and the contest success function. Our framework includes Tullock contests, Lazear-Rosen tournaments and all-pay contests as special cases, among others. We show that the optimal contest has an...
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violated. It is shown that more competition makes the equilibrium signaling more informative when the level of competition is … moderate. Moreover, the equilibrium signaling can perfectly reveal the ability under a certain level of competition. On the … other hand, too much competition always makes the equilibrium signaling less informative. …
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competition, and/or the behavioral impacts of competition. Psychologically, a competitive environment alters incentives for ….e., succeeding in a competition is valuable per se. We design an experiment that allows us to disentangle financial and psychological …
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We study strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players. Our theoretical model of a round-robin rank-order tournament predicts that players conserve resources in a current contest to spend more in the subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the...
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How does product market competition influence whether CEOs with greater or lower levels of overconfidence are hired and … as an equilibrium outcome. More importantly, the intensity of product market competition and the equilibrium CEO … competition, all firms hire a realistic CEO and do not overinvest …
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Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....
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