Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20183 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 947
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been tested empirically before; and (ii) whether incentives set through prizes matter for effort exertion; this assumption underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence obtained with data from professional tennis tournaments supports both the assumption that incentives matter, as well as the theoretical implications concerning uneven tournaments among heterogeneous contestants.
Subjects: 
elimination tournaments
uneven tournaments
incentives in tournaments
tennis
JEL: 
M12
J33
J41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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