``Success breeds success or ``Pride goes before a fall? Teams and individuals in multi-contest tournaments

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2015.09.002MaRDI QIDQ894609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qiang Fu, Changxia Ke, Fangfang Tan

Publication date 2 December 2015

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2015.09.002

zbMATH Keywords

experimentfeedbackmulti-contest tournamentsreal effortteam incentive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) Multistage and repeated games (91A20) Experimental studies (91A90)

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