Incentives versus competitive balance

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2012.06.051MaRDI QIDQ1925961zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Möller

Publication date 27 December 2012

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.051

zbMATH Keywords

incentivescontestsprize allocation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multistage and repeated games (91A20) Other game-theoretic models (91A40)

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Cites work

• Contest architecture
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• On the existence and uniqueness of pure Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games
• Strategy and dynamics in contests
• Tournaments with midterm reviews

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(11)

• Quantifying incentive (in)compatibility: a case study from sports
• Dynamic contests with bankruptcy: the despair effect
• Optimal effort incentives in dynamic tournaments
• Managerial Incentives and Product Market Competition
• Biasing dynamic contests between ex-ante symmetric players
• Winning isn't everything: how sports competition rules can make you want to lose
• Competitive prizes: when less scrutiny induces more effort
• Optimal incentive power for inter-team competition
• Competitive balance when winning breeds winners
• Contests within and between groups: theory and experiment
• Gaining advantage by winning contests

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