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

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

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …

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 …

This paper examines "market-based tournaments", in which firms use the tournament outcome to update their expectations … about worker ability. A theoretical model offers several implications, which are unique to the market-based tournament and … which we test in a laboratory experiment. The experiment supports most of the implications: We find that an increase in the …

stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with factory workers and university students as a …

We report results from the first experimental study of round-robin tournaments. In our experiment, we investigate how …

these in a controlled laboratory experiment. …