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

study such preferences in a laboratory experiment by eliciting the willingness-to-pay to receive or to avoid verbal feedback …Depending on the context at hand, people's preference for receiving feedback might differ. Especially in allocation … decisions that directly concern another individual, feedback from the affected person can have positive or negative value. We …

A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper … studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each … feedback and preserve unrealistic expectations. …

In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. …