dc.contributor.author | Boudreau, Kevin | |
dc.contributor.author | Lakhani, Karim R | |
dc.contributor.author | Menietti, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-13T14:39:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-01-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti. "Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design." <I>RAND Journal of Economics</I> 47, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 140–165. (This was Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-014, August 2013.) | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0741-6261 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11508222 | |
dc.description.abstract | Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, prize allocation and structure, divisionalization, open entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1756-2171.12121/full | en_US |
dash.license | OAP | |
dc.title | Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Author's Original | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | RAND Journal of Economics | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Lakhani, Karim R | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-13T14:39:01Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/1756-2171.12121/full | * |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Boudreau, Kevin | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Lakhani, Karim | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-2787-9599 | |