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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising over 16,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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40 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14037
Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy
Darrell J. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman
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. 10755
Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
Michael Babington, Sebastian J. Goerg, Carl Kitchens
published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21 (1), 44-63.
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. 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. 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6884
The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser, Dirk Sliwka
published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6480
The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non, Willem Verbeke
revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6316
Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Matthias Sutter
revised version published in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (4), 425-441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6304
Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure
Roman M. Sheremeta, Steven Y. Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6279
Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1079-1114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5755
Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?
Wolfgang Höchtl, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde
revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5543
Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions: Theory and Field Evidence
Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4812
Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA
Christian Grund, Jan Höcker, Stefan Zimmermann
revised version published as 'Incidence and Consequences of Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments - Evidence from the NBA' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1489–1501
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