Tournaments and office politics: Evidence from a real effort experiment

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 504-517

  Carpenter, Jeffrey ^a,b   Matthews, Peter Hans ^a,b   Schirm, John ^c  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IZA ^*  (Slovakia)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

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EID: 77952357215     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.1.504     Document Type: Article

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