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72 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12182
Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show
Alison L. Booth, Jungmin Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11919
Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
Frederik Graff, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11675
Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato, Nina Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10977
Performance and Risk Taking under Threat of Elimination
Nathan R. Adams, Glen R. Waddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10755
Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
Michael Babington, Sebastian J. Goerg, Carl Kitchens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10626
Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Rachel Frank, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10384
Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan
Alison L. Booth, Eiji Yamamura
Forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10011
Gender Differences in Risk-Taking: Evidence from Professional Basketball
René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler, Mario Lackner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9854
The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, Vol. 151, July, pp. 1–18.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9593
Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 111 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565
Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9564
Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field
Mario Lackner, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9330
Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives
E. Glenn Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Dmitry Ryvkin, Matthias Sutter
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, 94, 39-56.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9041
Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton
revised version published in: Experimental Economics 19(4), December 2016, 287-712; doi: 10.1007/s10683-015-9465-9
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8950
Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
Colin P. Green, Fernando A. Lozano, Rob Simmons
published in: NIESR Review: Special Issue of Sports Economics , 2015, 232 (1), R30 - R40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8369
Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Benjamin Tabb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7799
Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 48, 117-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7759
After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7492
On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Ernesto Reuben, Frans van Winden
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 40-57
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