An experimental study on tournament design

Labour Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 443-464

  Harbring, Christine ^a   Irlenbusch, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collusion; Contest design; Restart effect; Tournament design; Work incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038467277     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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