In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by … assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … the presence of tournament incentives, agents react reciprocally to higher wages, which mitigates the sabotage problem …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …. We show that when the subjects choose to enter a tournament, the average effort is higher and the between …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit … findings are as follows. First, output is much higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate, tournament, and revenue sharing …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … differences in performance in four distinct competitive situations. These were as follows: (i) the standard tournament game where …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …