Performance responses to competition across skill levels in rank-order tournaments: field evidence and implications for tournament design

Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2775 contestants in 755 software algorithm development contests with random assignment. The performance response to added contestants varies nonmonotonically across contestants of different...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Rand journal of economics 2016-04, Vol.47 (1), p.140-165
Hauptverfasser:	Boudreau, Kevin J., Lakhani, Karim R., Menietti, Michael
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Competition Design Economic policy Simulation Studies Tournaments & championships
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