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An empirical study on risk-taking in tournaments

Christian Grund
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Oliver Gürtler *
Pages 457-461 | Published online: 19 Aug 2006

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James L. Swofford, Franklin G. Mixon & Trellis G. Green. (2009) Can a sub-optimal tournament be optimal when the prize can be collectively consumed? The case of college football's national championship. Applied Economics 41:25, pages 3215-3223.
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Qing Yang & Yangqing Zhao. (2023) Risk-taking, loss aversion, and performance feedback in dynamic and heterogeneous tournaments. Frontiers in Psychology 14.
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Lena Neuberg & Stefan Thiem. (2022) Risk-taking in contests with heterogeneous players and intermediate Information—Evidence from handball. Journal of Sports Economics 23:7, pages 851-880.
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Ulf Rinne & Hendrik Sonnabend. (2021) Female workers, male managers: Gender, leadership, and risk‐taking. Southern Economic Journal 88:3, pages 906-930.
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Franklin G. MixonJr.Jr. & Luis R. Gómez-Mejia. (2020) The Competitive Struggle to Win Tournaments: The Allies’ Race to Capture Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. American Business Review 23:1, pages 3-17.
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Alessandro Bucciol, Alessio Hu & Luca Zarri. (2019) The effects of prior outcomes on managerial risk taking: Evidence from Italian professional soccer. Journal of Economic Psychology 75, pages 102090.
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Frank Mueller-Langer & Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. (2019) Leading-Effect, Risk-Taking and Sabotage in Two-Stage Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 237:1, pages 1-28.
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Zejun Li, Chengyuan Wang, Qiong Wang & Biao Luo. (2019) A review on risk-taking in tournaments. Journal of Modelling in Management 14:2, pages 559-568.
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Ulf Rinne & Hendrik Sonnabend. (2019) Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Stephen Easton, Sean Pinder & Steven Stern. (2018) Documenting the functional form of dynamic risk-taking behaviour in a real options context using sporting contests. Accounting & Finance 58, pages 159-178.
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Carl Hsin-han Shen & Hao Zhang. (2018) Tournament Incentives and Firm Innovation*. Review of Finance 22:4, pages 1515-1548.
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Christian Deutscher, Oliver Gürtler, Joachim Prinz & Daniel Weimar. (2017) THE PAYOFF TO CONSISTENCY IN PERFORMANCE. Economic Inquiry 55:2, pages 1091-1103.
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Christian Deutscher & Arne Büschemann. (2014) Does Performance Consistency Pay Off Financially for Players? Evidence From the Bundesliga. Journal of Sports Economics 17:1, pages 27-43.
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Tim Straub, Timm Teubner & Christof Weinhardt. (2016) Risk Taking in Online Crowdsourcing Tournaments. Risk Taking in Online Crowdsourcing Tournaments.
CHRISTIAN GRUND, JAN HÖCKER & STEFAN ZIMMERMANN. (2012) INCIDENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF RISK‐TAKING BEHAVIOR IN TOURNAMENTS—EVIDENCE FROM THE NBA. Economic Inquiry 51:2, pages 1489-1501.
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Christos Genakos & Mario Pagliero. (2012) Interim Rank, Risk Taking, and Performance in Dynamic Tournaments. Journal of Political Economy 120:4, pages 782-813.
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Matthias Kräkel. (2008) Optimal risk taking in an uneven tournament game with risk averse players. Journal of Mathematical Economics 44:11, pages 1219-1231.
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Bernd Frick, Oliver Gürtler & Joachim Prinz. (2016) Anreize in Turnieren mit heterogenen Teilnehmern — Eine empirische Untersuchung mit Daten aus der Fußball-Bundesliga. Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung 60:4, pages 385-405.
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Frank Mueller-Langer & Patrick Andreoli Versbach. (2013) Leading-Effect vs. Risk-Taking in Dynamic Tournaments: Evidence from a Real-Life Randomized Experiment. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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