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Incentives for cooperation in teams: sociality meets decision rights

Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021

We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...

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Teams as superstars : effort and risk taking in rank-order tournaments for women and men

Lackner, Mario - 2016

provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as …

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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. However, if individuals collude, then within-team incentives may not be …

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The optimal prize structure of symmetric Tullock contests

Schweinzer, Paul; Segev, Ella - 2008

We show that the optimal prize structure of symmetric n-player Tullock tournaments assigns the entire prize pool to the winner, provided that a symmetric pure strategy equilibrium exists. If such an equilibrium fails to exist under the winner-take-all structure, we construct the optimal prize...

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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

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