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Do tournaments with superstars encourage or discourage competition?

Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl T. - 2017

To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single … superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately, we collect and explore data from four sources: men's and women … replication of Brown's (2011) study. Empirically, we find little robust evidence of the superstar effect in any of our datasets …

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The pros and cons of workplace tournaments : tournaments can outperform other compensation schemes such as piece-rate and fixed wage contracts

Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2016

Tournaments are commonly used in the workplace to determine promotion, assign bonuses, and motivate personal development. Tournament-based contracts can be very effective in eliciting high effort, often outperforming other compensation contracts, but they can also have negative consequences for...

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Prize and Incentives in Double-Elimination Tournaments

Huang, Lingbo - 2017

I examine a game-theoretical model of two variants of double-elimination tournaments, and derive the equilibrium behavior of symmetric players and the optimal prize allocation assuming a designer aims to maximize total effort. I compare these theoretical properties to the well-known...

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Adding Tournament to Tournament : Combining Between-Team and Within-Team Incentives

Majerczyk, Michael - 2018

We examine theoretically and experimentally how combining between-team and within-team incentives affects behavior in team tournaments. Theory predicts that free-riding is likely to occur when there are only between-team incentives, and offering within-team incentives may solve this problem....

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Tournament Incentives in Professional Bowling

Bognanno, Michael L. - 2012

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When higher prizes lead to lower efforts : the impact of favoritism in tournaments

Herbertz, Claus Ortwin; Sliwka, Dirk - In: Economics letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 188-191

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Tournaments and piece rates revisited : a theoretical and experimental study of output-dependent prize tournaments

Güth, Werner; Levínský, René; Pull, Kerstin; Weisel, Ori - In: Review of economic design : RED 20 (2016) 1, pp. 69-88

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Incentives in contests with heterogeneous solvers

Körpeoğlu, Ersin; Cho, Soo-Haeng - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 64 (2018) 6, pp. 2709-2715

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Incentives to lose revisited : the NHL and its tournament incentives

Fornwagner, Helena - 2017

This paper analyzes data from a tournament, namely the National Hockey League regular scheduled season of games, which provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been eliminated from playoff considerations because of...

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Tournaments with safeguards : a blessing or a curse for women?

Bao, Zhengyang; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2020

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