The first shall be last: Serial position effects in the case contestants evaluate each other

We analyze competitions where the contestants evaluate each other and find the first contestant to be disadvantaged. We suspect that this is due to information diffusion, Bayesian belief updating taking place in course of the contest and initial uncertainty about a contestant's relative quality.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Haigner, Stefan D. ; Jenewein, Stefan ; Müller, Hans-Christian ; Wakolbinger, Florian
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 30.2010, 4, p. 3170-3176
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	Serial Position Effects \| Ordering Effects

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Classification:	D8 - Information and Uncertainty ; C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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