Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106525 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8585
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide whether to exert effort and receive a reward based on their relative performance. Hence, sharing can increase joint production but introduces competition for the reward. We find that collaboration has a non-monotonic relationship with both productivity and rewards. The laboratory experiment confirms the model's main predictions. We also explore extensions of the basic model, including one where each agent's productivity is private information.
Subjects: 
turf war
bureaucracy
jurisdiction
competition
information withholding
JEL: 
D73
D74
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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