We establish the existence and uniqueness of pure-strategy equilibrium in two-worker rank order contests with sabotage … while allowing interdependent effects of productive and sabotage effort. We find that diverging marginal costs in workers …' productive effort discourage sabotage activity. For symmetric workers, it is optimal to set a pay dispersion that induces …

, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …

, competition) to control for moderating effects of different incentives. Team incentives, risk taking, and self-esteem reduced … performance whereas a preference towards competition enhanced it. On average, we observe a second mover advantage. However …

In economic contests or tournaments where monitoring of the actions taken by contestants is imperfect competition is …

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