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Sabotage in Asymmetric Contests – An Experimental Analysis
Kräkel, Matthias; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Harbring, Christine; … - 2004
In a contest players compete for winning a prize by effort and thereby increasing their probability of winning. Contestants, however, could also improve their own relative position by harming the other players. We experimentally analyze contests with heterogeneous agents who may individually...
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Does a Short-Term Increase in Incentives Boost Performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
competition affect agents\' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …
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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence
Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
-order tournament. Team members compete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prize within the team. The … proposer rotates in the order of members' efforts. We show in an experiment that tournaments elicit higher efforts than random …
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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822032
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Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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Choosing to compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison; Nolen, Patrick - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 542-555
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating
Benistant, Julien; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
tournament. In this dynamic setting we test (i) whether giving continuous feedback (vs. final ex post feedback) on the opponent … tournament. Continuous feedback on the counterpart's reports increases cheating under the piece-rate scheme but not in a … scheme in use (piece rate vs. tournament). We also vary whether the opponent is able to cheat or not. We find that people lie …
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Intrafirm conflicts and interfirm price competition
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - 2011
tournament incentive scheme. The principals offer premium incentives in the sense of revenue shares to which agents react by …
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Bonus pools, limited liability, and tournaments
Budde, Jörg - 2007
optimal fixed payment scheme is a tournament. …
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