work periods as tournaments that are linked through fatigue spillovers, inducing a non-time-separable decision problem. We …

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an … qualified ones. From a survey among spectators, we show that sabotage is welfare-reducing. -- tournaments ; sabotage ; Judo …

levels for three tournament incentive schemes: reward tournaments, punishment tournaments, and tournaments combining reward … punishment produces the highest effort from agents, especially in contests of a relatively larger size. Punishment is shown to be … more effective and, in larger contests, more efficient than rewards, and it is also the mechanism with the lowest variance …

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an … qualified ones. From a survey among spectators, we show that sabotage is welfare-reducing. -- tournaments ; sabotage ; Judo …

Tournaments are widely used in organizations, explicitly or implicitly, to reward the best-performing employees, e …. Specifically, punishment tournaments lead to higher profits of the firm. The reason is that low-ability agents are discouraged less … in punishment tournaments than in reward tournaments, and hence can be compensated less to meet their participation …

Managers often use tournaments which motivate workers to compete for the top, compete to avoid the bottom, or both. In … from agents, especially in contests of a relatively larger size. Avoiding being last is shown to produce the lowest … variance of effort, be more effective and, in larger contests, more efficient than competing for the top. Finally, we show that …