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On violence in professional team sport as the endogenous result of profit maximization
Stewart, Kenneth G.; Ferguson, Donald G.; Jones, J. C. H. - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000970209
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Ranking income distributions
Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 1981
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528791
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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308046
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Why are migrants paid more?
Bryson, Alex; Simmons, Robert; Rossi, Giambattista - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746118
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Genetic diversity and performance: evidence from football data
Beine, Michel; Perachi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596703
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Class rank and long-run outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905519
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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment
Ashraf, Anik - 2019
Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such … ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate … status associated with ranking through a randomized experiment at a Bangladeshi sweater factory. Treated workers receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118624
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Inference on the maximal rank of time-varying covariance matrices using high-frequency data
Reiß, Markus; Winkelmann, Lars - 2021
We study the rank of the instantaneous or spot covariance matrix Σ(t) of a multidimensional continuous semi-martingale X(t). Given highfrequency observations X(i=n), i = 0; : : : ;n, we test the null hypothesis rank (Σ(t)) ≤ r for all t against local alternatives where the average (r + 1)st...
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Büttner, Thiess - 2002
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...
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