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The older the wiser? Determinants of misbehaviour in team contests

Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2022

We use data from top-level soccer to examine determinants of individual misbehaviour in team contests. Our estimates …

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Rehsmann, Daniel; Roussillon, Béatrice; Schweinzer, Paul - 2023

We model competition on a credence market governed by an imperfect label, signaling high quality, as a rank-order tournament between firms. In this market interaction, asymmetric firms jointly and competitively control the underlying quality ranking's precision by releasing individual...

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Agreeing on public goods or bads

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

literatures on public goods and contests. …

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Harnessing beliefs to optimally disclose contestants’ types

Serena, Marco - In: Economic Theory 74 (2021) 3, pp. 763-792

-life contests. We propose a model where the principal of a contest has commitment power to verifiably disclose contestants’ types …

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Merger in contests

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2000

Competition in some markets is a contest. This paper studies the merger incentives in such markets. Merger can be profitable. The profitability depends on the post-merger contest structure, the discriminatory power of the contest and on the number of contestants.

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Divisionalization in contests

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2000

To be represented by more than one contestant in a contest has advantages and disadvantages. This paper determines the conditions under which it is favorable to send several agents into the contest.

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A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts … while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all …-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

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Management takeover battles and the role of the golden handshake

Fabel, Oliver; Kolmar, Martin - 2002

The effect of severance pay on management behavior during a takeover battle is generally ambiguous. Yet, the severance payment completely restraining all influence activities always constitutes a golden handshake. The manager leaving office still benefits from the increase in the merged firm's...

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Contests with Size Effects

Eggert, Wolfgang; Kolmar, Martin - 2005

types of contests may lead to opposing results concerning the optimal number of individuals depending on the strength of …

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Consuming your Way to Efficiency: Public Goods Provision through Non-Distortionary Tax Lotteries

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013

the public good is provided exogenously or dependent on actual tax revenue. We show that neither pure fundraising contests …

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