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This short paper aims to find an empirical evidence that al Qaeda behaves as a contest organizer rewarding an indivisible prize – namely, official membership and economic rewards – to candidate extremists groups. Would-be terrorists must then compete with each other to prove their commitment...
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rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …
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players improve the performance of four teams which participate in a tournament, such as in the UEFA Champions League (UCL …
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In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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- players is high or low, while the most efficient team of the tournament is not affected by the wage structure. The U …
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-order tournament. Perceived entitlements are sensitive to how hard an agent has worked relative to her rival, and agents are loss … averse around their meritocratically determined endogenous reference points. In a fair tournament sufficiently large desert … average. In an unfair tournament, where one agent is advantaged, the equilibrium is symmetric in the absence of desert, but …
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Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...
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We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals …
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This paper finds an empirical evidence that al Qaeda behaves as a contest organizer rewarding a prize to candidate extremist groups. Would-be terrorists must then compete with each other to prove their commitment and ability. Hence to maximize their own probability of winning the prize, each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036828