Stufenmodell oder Leistungspunkte?Die Vergabe besondererLeistungsbezüge an deutschenUniversitäten

One of the main issues of the reform regarding a professor’s remuneration at German universitiesis the introduction of a performance-dependent salary. This paper applies relative rank ordertournaments to special performance benefits at university level. It turns out that the awardingprocedure can be categorized as different tournament types: the “Stufen-Modell” (level-model)is characterized as a U-type tournament and the “Leistungspunkte-Modell” (merit points-model)is described as a J-type tournament.[...]