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Tournaments : There is More than Meets the Eye
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2021
By the well established tournament literature, incomplete information regarding the employees' productivity is essential for the rationalization of (efficiency-enhancing) tournaments. In this paper we propose an alternative rationalization of tournaments focusing on a fully informed principal...
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Economic consequences of managerial compensation contract disclosure
Xiong, Yan; Jiang, Xu - In: Journal of accounting & economics 73 (2022) 2/3, pp. 1-22
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Charness, Gary - 2010
robustness to labor market competition both theoretically and experimentally. Consistent with our theoretical model, we observe … substantial ratchet effects in the absence of competition, which is nearly eliminated when competition is introduced; this is true …
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Keeping a clean reputation : more rvidence on the perverse effects of disclosure
Deck, Cary A.; Tracy, J. Dustin - 2020
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Entry-deterring agency
Loertscher, Simon; Niedermayer, Andras - In: Games and economic behavior 119 (2020), pp. 172-188
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Competition between infinitely many fund managers and investor's welfare
Lupi, Enrico - 2020
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Anti-tanking pair matching before an elimination phase of a two-phase tournament
Stronka, Waldemar - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/66, pp. 1-13
Perverse incentives are ubiquitous in different economic settings. In sports, they often take the form of temptation to deliberately lose matches (the phenomenon known as tanking or sandbagging). In practice, there were even such pathological situations as when a soccer team intentionally scored...
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Social comparison and optimal contracts in competition for managerial talent
Ulrichshofer, Anna; Walzl, Markus - 2020
We analyze the impact of social comparison on optimal contract design under imperfect labor market competition for … if the degree of competition for talent is sufficiently low. In contrast, a ranking unambiguously reduces welfare if the … competition intensity is high and agents suffer from lagging behind while it can enhance welfare (depending on the fraction of …
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On the incentive effects of sample size in monitoring agents : a theoretical and experimental analysis
Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yaakov; Uske, … - In: German economic review 18 (2017) 1, pp. 81-98
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