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Tournament

About: Tournament is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1939 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29932 citations. The topic is also known as: sports tournament & tournaments.


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TL;DR: Men and women of the same ability differ in their selection into a competitive environment as discussed by the authors, and this gender gap in tournament entry is not explained by performance, and factors such as risk and feedback aversion only play a negligible role.
Abstract: We examine whether men and women of the same ability differ in their selection into a competitive environment. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a real task, first under a noncompetitive piece rate and then a competitive tournament incentive scheme. Although there are no gender differences in performance, men select the tournament twice as much as women when choosing their compensation scheme for the next performance. While 73 percent of the men select the tournament, only 35 percent of the women make this choice. This gender gap in tournament entry is not explained by performance, and factors such as risk and feedback aversion only playa negligible role. Instead, the tournament-entry gap is driven by men being more overconfident and by gender differences in preferences for performing in a competition. The result is that women shy away from competition and men embrace it.

2,017 citations

Patent
22 Apr 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, a distributed electronic tournament system is described in which many remotely located players participate in a tournament through input/output devices connected to a central controller which manages the tournament.
Abstract: A method and a system for a distributed electronic tournament system in which many remotely located players participate in a tournament through input/output devices connected to a central controller which manages the tournament. The method includes the steps of (a) uniquely identifying a player communicating with the central controller via an associated input/output device; (b) responding to payment of an entry fee by the player for allowing the player to participate in a tournament occurring within a fixed time window via an associated input/output device; (c) accessing a database to store in the database player information that is generated as the player participates in the tournament, such information being available for use in a subsequent tournament, which is administered by said controller and in which the player participates; and (d) awarding the player a prize for achieving a pre-established performance level in the tournament. In another preferred embodiment, the method further includes the steps of determining whether the player has been qualified to advance to a subsequent game session, in which at least one player is eliminated from the previous game session; and permitting each player qualified to a subsequent game session to participate in that game session. The system includes software and hardware to implement the method steps.

1,111 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors add to the empirical literature on tournament theory as a theory of executive compensation and test several propositions of tournament models on a rich data set containing information about 2,600 executives in 210 Danish firms during a 4-year period.
Abstract: This article adds to the empirical literature on tournament theory as a theory of executive compensation. I test several propositions of tournament models on a rich data set containing information about 2,600 executives in 210 Danish firms during a 4‐year period. I ask, Are pay differentials between job levels consistent with relative compensation? Is pay dispersion between levels higher in noisy environments? Is the dispersion affected by the number of tournament participants? Is average pay lower in firms with more compressed pay structures? Does wider pay dispersion enhance firm performance? Most of the predictions gain support in the data.

510 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the tournament spread (prize differential) does have incentive effects on both individual performance and driver safety, that these effects peak at higher spreads, and that controlling for the dollar value of tournament spread, the prize distribution has little influence on individual performance.
Abstract: Brian E. Becker and Mark A. Huselid State University of New York at Buffalo Tournament models have developed into an important component of the theoretical literature on organizational reward systems. However, with one exception there have been no empirical tests of the incentive effects of tournament models in a field setting. Drawing on a panel data set from auto racing, we show that the tournament spread (prize differential) does have incentive effects on both individual performance and driver safety, that these effects peak at higher spreads, and that controlling for the dollar value of the tournament spread, the prize distribution has little influence on individual performance.

406 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a model is presented in which contestants compete to find the innovation of highest value to the tournament sponsor, and the winner receives a prespecified prize, which has a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium.
Abstract: Contracting for research is often infeasible because research inputs are unobservable and research outcomes cannot be verified by a court. Sponsoring a research tournament can resolve these problems. A model is presented in which contestants compete to find the innovation of highest value to the tournament sponsor. The winner receives a prespecified prize. The tournament game has a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium. Free entry is not optimal because equilibrium effort by each researcher decreases in the number of contestants. An optimally designed research tournament balances the probability of overshooting the first-best quality level against the probability of falling short. Copyright 1995 by American Economic Association.

401 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023227
2022544
202182
202093
201983
201885