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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808006
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102829
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104948
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2014
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049076
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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394004
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548053
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Choosing to compete : how different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2009
competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814309
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Are competitors forward looking in strategic interactions? : evidence from the field
Lackner, Mario; Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2015
This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values and the ability of their immediate opponent into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396897
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Are competitors forward looking in strategic interactions? : evidence from the field
Lackner, Mario; Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2015
This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values and the ability of their immediate opponent into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407819
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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455813