Tournament Theory Applied on Professional Tennis Players: Can we still talk of performance incentives?

La théorie des tournois appliquée aux joueurs de tennis professionnels: peut-on encore parler d’incitations à la performance

Eric Barget, Matthieu Llorca () and Thierry Teste
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Eric Barget: CDES [Limoges] - Centre de Droit et d'Économie du Sport, UNILIM - Université de Limoges
Matthieu Llorca: Laboratoire d'économie et de gestion - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE], UB - Université de Bourgogne
Thierry Teste: SPMS - Laboratoire de Socio-Psychologie et Management du Sport - UB - Université de Bourgogne, UB - Université de Bourgogne

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to apply the tournament theory on professional male tennis players. Two new performance indicators are introduced, to take into account the opponent level. Empirical tests are conducted, by using the Ordinary Least Squares method, on the whole tournaments played by the best ATP 30 players, over the season 2007. Econometric results confirm the tournament theory incentive effect, namely, an undistributed prize structure between tournament levels, increase the player performance. However, the participative effect is rejected: the overall tournament prize money does not induce better player performance.

Keywords: ournament theory - incentives - performance - prize money - tennis; théorie des tournois - incitations - performance - dotation monétaire - tennis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Revue d'économie politique, 2011, 121 (3), pp.349-372

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