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particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values …-professional basketball tournaments, we find that effort is negatively affected by the ability of the current opponent, consistent with the …
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particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values …-professional basketball tournaments, we find that effort is negatively affected by the ability of the current opponent, consistent with the …
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particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values …-professional basketball tournaments, we find that effort is negatively affected by the ability of the current opponent, consistent with the …
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In this paper, a promotion tournament is considered, where, at the beginning of the tournament, it is unknown how long the tournament lasts. Further, the promotion decision is based on the assessments of a supervisor with imperfect recall. In line with psychological research, the supervisor is...
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of...
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subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the current (subsequent) contest is sufficiently large (small). We confirm … are (i) less likely to be fielded when the heterogeneity in the current match increases and (ii) more likely to receive a … fifth yellow card in the current match when the heterogeneity in the next match increases or when the heterogeneity in the …
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This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...
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