Ratings und Rankings spielen eine wichtige Rolle in vielen Aspekten des Lebens. Ob der beste Arbeitgeber, die Qualität von Hotels und Restaurants oder die Kreditwürdigkeit von Privatpersonen, Unternehmen und sogar ganzen Ländern gesucht werden, ständig werden Leistungen bewertet und in...

We examine the impact of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on college students' drinking behavior using a nationally representative sample of American institutions. While success in intercollegiate athletics may augment the visibility of a university to prospective students and thereby...

We examine the impact of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on college students' drinking behavior using a nationally representative sample of American institutions. While success in intercollegiate athletics may augment the visibility of a university to prospective students and thereby...

In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...

In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...

Die Bedrohung der Integrität sportlicher Wettbewerbe durch Betrug und Manipulation gehört zu den derzeit intensiv diskutierten Themen sowohl innerhalb der Sportwissenschaft als auch in der sportinteressierten Öffentlichkeit. Dabei verdeckt der Blick auf medial transportierte Skandale...

This paper provides nested sets and vector representations of knockout tournaments. The paper introduces classification of probability domain assumptions and a new set of axioms. Two new seeding methods are proposed: equal gap seeding and increasing competitive intensity seeding. Under different...

Die Bedrohung der Integrität sportlicher Wettbewerbe durch Betrug und Manipulation gehört zu den derzeit intensiv diskutierten Themen sowohl innerhalb der Sportwissenschaft als auch in der sportinteressierten Öffentlichkeit. Dabei verdeckt der Blick auf medial transportierte Skandale...

We examine the impact of secondary incentives by evaluating agent behaviour in a professional sport that rewards multiple outcomes. Our analysis focuses on the Super Rugby competition, which awards four points for a win and bonus points for scoring four or more tries and/or losing by seven or...

Die international typischen Wettbewerbsformate im Individualsport sind Einzelwettkämpfe und -wettkampfserien. Dennoch besteht in Deutschland eine Vielfalt an Ligen auch in Individualsportarten. Timo Zimmermann untersucht erstmals dieses Phänomen und entwickelt ein Anreiz-Beitrags-Modell zu...

Der (olympische) Leistungssport gilt als ideale Form der Konkurrenz, in der gemäß den Prinzipien der Fairness, Chancengleichheit, Transparenz und gegenseitigen Achtung allein die Leistung entscheiden soll. Darauf gründet ein Großteil seiner Popularität, aber auch seine Vorbildfunktion für...

Der (olympische) Leistungssport gilt als ideale Form der Konkurrenz, in der gemäß den Prinzipien der Fairness, Chancengleichheit, Transparenz und gegenseitigen Achtung allein die Leistung entscheiden soll. Darauf gründet ein Großteil seiner Popularität, aber auch seine Vorbildfunktion für...

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

Four years after the last European football championship (EURO) in Austria and Switzerland, the two finalists of the EURO 2008 - Spain and Germany - are again the clear favorites for the EURO 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. Using a bookmaker consensus rating - obtained by aggregating winning...

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...

Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical dataon induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in acontrolled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory:effort and sabotage...