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Creativity Contests: An Experimental Investigation of Eliciting Employee Creativity.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of Accounting Research (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Mar2023, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p47-94, 48p
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Fatter or fitter? On rewarding and training in a contest.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Economic Inquiry. Jan2022, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p101-120. 20p. 7 Diagrams.
Abstract: Competition between heterogeneous participants leads to low‐effort provision in contests. A principal can divide her fixed budget between skill‐enhancing training and the contest prize. Training can reduce heterogeneity, increasing effort. It also redu...
Consumers' response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Psychology, Crime & Law; Oct2023, Vol. 29 Issue 9, p903-921, 19p
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Optimally biased Tullock contests.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of Mathematical Economics. Jan2021, Vol. 92, p10-21. 12p.
Abstract: This paper examines optimally biased Tullock contests. We consider a multi-player Tullock contest in which players differ in their prize valuations. The designer is allowed to impose identity-dependent treatments – i.e., multiplicative biases – to vary...
Contests with multiple alternative prizes: Public-good/bad prizes and externalities.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of Mathematical Economics. Jan2021, Vol. 92, p103-116. 14p.
Abstract: We study contests in which there are multiple alternative public-good/bad prizes, and the players compete, by expending irreversible effort, over which prize to have awarded to them. Each prize may be a public good for some players and a public bad for...
The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Book History (Johns Hopkins University Press); Spring2022, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p269-293, 25p
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OPTIMAL PRICE OF ENTRY INTO A COMPETITION.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Economic Inquiry. Jan2021, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p280-286. 7p. 1 Graph.
Abstract: A continuum of contestants are choosing whether to enter a competition. Each contestant has a type, and of those who enter, the ones with highest types receive prizes. A profit‐maximizing firm controls entry, and charges a price for it. I show that an ...
Creating Award Winners in the Library: An Account of "Reprizing".
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Library Quarterly; Jan2022, Vol. 92 Issue 1, p39-67, 29p
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Gaining advantage by winning contests.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of Economic Design. Jun2020, Vol. 24 Issue 1/2, p23-38. 16p.
Abstract: We consider a principal who faces many identical competitors, and who can distribute a prize fund over two consecutive contests. The winner of contest one gains an advantage in contest two where his effort is more productive than all rivals. We identif...
Rural community development through competitions, prizes, and campaigns: The villagers' perspective.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of Rural Studies; Oct2021, Vol. 87, p465-473, 9p
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