Doping und Wettbewerbsintensität

Alexander Dilger () and Frank Tolsdorf

Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, vol. 130, issue 1, 95-116

Abstract: There are systematic incentives to dope within the structure of sports tournaments. A simple decision theory model demonstrates the nature of these incentives and the circumstances in which they are particularly strong. From this model, some empirically testable hypotheses are derived. The most important one, that greater competition between athletes induces more doping, is corroborated by comparing the competitiveness and number of caught dopers in thirteen different athletic sports. The lack of other significant findings may be explained by the decisive role of competitiveness which is more powerful than all other effects and is also a central element of them.

JEL-codes: C20 D81 I18 J28 K42 L83 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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