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

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 …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … differences in performance in four distinct competitive situations. These were as follows: (i) the standard tournament game where …

tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the reflection problem, which usually undermines research on dynamic interaction … output. We observe that the subjects' performance is highest in a homogeneous tournament, i.e., when they compete against an … peer effects rather than by tournament incentives. We extensively track the behavior of subjects and the particular …

these in a controlled laboratory experiment. …

these in a controlled laboratory experiment. …

themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …

We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … opponent is revealed before the tournament, males increase their performance in the real effort task especially if the opponent …