A contest is a situation in which individuals expend irretrievable resources to win valuable
prize (s).“Sabotage” is a deliberate and costly act of damaging a rival's likelihood of winning …

To investigate the effect of competitive incentives under peer review, we designed a novel
experimental setup called the Art Exhibition Game. We present experimental evidence of …

In this paper, we address the problem of sabotage in tournaments with heterogeneous
contestants. In a first step, we develop a formal model, which yields the prediction that …

Sabotage is one of the main problems of tournament‐like reward schemes. Workers who are
leading in a tournament are more dangerous rivals, and are therefore sabotaged more …

This chapter reviews the literature on sabotage in contests. In such cases, contenders
expend resources in contests to hinder or impede the efforts of other contenders. Resources …

Contests are ubiquitous in economic, organizational and political settings. Contest
designers often use tools to make a contest among asymmetric contestants more even, in …

Purpose Virtual crowdsourcing initiatives, and in particular crowdsourcing competitions,
have become a promising means of harnessing users' creativity to help corporate …

We provide a theoretical analysis of multitask promotion tournaments in which workers
increase their promotion chances by under-performing (over-performing) on tasks that are …

We consider a two-stage contest in which players choose destructive efforts (sabotage) in
stage 1 and productive efforts in stage 2. When the value of the prize is sufficiently high, we …

We investigate the effect of employee heterogeneity on the incentive to exert effort in a
market-based tournament. External employers use promotion decisions to estimate …