Heterogeneity and performance in tournaments: A test for incentive effects using professional tennis data

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 3199-3208

  Sunde, Uwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b CEPR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HETEROGENEITY; MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SPORT; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 70350754402     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802243789     Document Type: Article

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