A Note on Sabotage in Collective Tournaments

Oliver Gürtler ()

No 61, Discussion Papers from SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich

Abstract: In this paper a tournament between teams (a collective tournament) is analyzed, where each contestant may spend productive effort in order to increase his team's performance or sabotage the members of the opponent team. It is shown that sabotaging the weaker members of a team always decreases their team's performance more significantly than sabotaging stronger members does. As a consequence, sabotage activities are only directed at a team's weaker members. This finding is quite interesting, as previous results on individual tournaments indicate that oftentimes only the stronger participants should be sabotaged.

Keywords: Collective Tournament; Sabotage; Complementarities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 J33 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-10
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