Honesty in tournaments

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Rilke, Anne Schielke and Gari Walkowitz ()

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 123, issue 1, 90-93

Abstract: We apply the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013) to a two-player tournament incentive scheme. Our treatments vary the prize spread. The data highlights that honesty is more pronounced when the prize spread is small.

Keywords: Experiment; Compensation schemes; Tournament; Honesty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.026

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