How noise affects effort in tournaments

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2020.105065zbMATH Open1447.91005OpenAlexW3020182076MaRDI QIDQ785535FDOQ785535

Authors: Mikhail Drugov, Dmitry Ryvkin 

Publication date: 7 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2020.105065

Recommendations

• When will the Range of Prizes in Tournaments Increase in the Noise or in the Number of Players?
• Fairness and desert in tournaments
• An alternative interpretation of random noise in rank-order tournaments
• The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments
• The role of inequality on effort in tournaments

zbMATH Keywords

noiseentropydispersive ordertournamentquantile stochastic dominance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Noncooperative games (91A10)

Cites Work

• NIST handbook of mathematical functions
• Inequalities: theory of majorization and its applications
• Dispersive distributions, and the connection between dispersivity and strong unimodality
• Stochastic orders
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The all-pay auction with complete information
• The theory of contests: a survey
• All-Pay Contests
• Nonparametric Statistical Data Modeling
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Strategy and dynamics in contests
• Brownian motion. With an appendix by Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner
• Mixed equilibria in Tullock contests
• Signal orderings based on dispersion and the supply of private information in auctions
• On Random Variables with Comparable Peakedness
• A mechanism design approach to ranking asymmetric auctions
• Equilibrium bid functions for auctions with an uncertain number of bidders
• Micro foundations of multi-prize lottery contests: a perspective of noisy performance ranking
• Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction
• The optimal accuracy level in asymmetric contests
• Simplifying the Choice between Uncertain Prospects Where Preference is Nonlinear
• Large contests
• Contests with endogenous entry
• When will the Range of Prizes in Tournaments Increase in the Noise or in the Number of Players?
• The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments

Cited In (13)

• Inequality and conflict outbreak
• Simple equilibria in general contests
• The role of inequality on effort in tournaments
• The limits of meritocracy
• Optimal risk taking in an uneven tournament game with risk averse players
• The role of noise variance on effort in group contests
• When will the Range of Prizes in Tournaments Increase in the Noise or in the Number of Players?
• Optimal contest design: tuning the heat
• Fairness and desert in tournaments
• Multi-prize contests with risk-averse players
• Tournament rewards and heavy tails
• The incentive effect of coarsening the competition structure in a tournament
• The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments

Uses Software

• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

This page was built for publication: How noise affects effort in tournaments

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q785535)