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Article: Suspense: Dynamic incentives in sports contests

TitleSuspense: Dynamic incentives in sports contests
Authors
Issue Date2009
PublisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ECOJ
Citation
Economic Journal, 2009, v. 119 n. 534, p. 24-46 How to Cite?
AbstractIn a dynamic model of sports competition, if spectators care only about contestants'efforts, incentive schemes depending linearly on the final score difference dominate rank order schemes based only on who wins. If spectators also care about suspense, defined as valuing more contestants' efforts when the game is closer, rank order schemes can dominate linear score difference schemes, and this will be the case when the demand for suspense is sufficiently high. Under additional assumptions, we show that the optimal rank order scheme dominates a broad class of incentive schemes. © The Author(s). Journal compilation © 2009 by the Royal Economic Society.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/60176
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2023 Impact Factor: 3.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.507
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dc.contributor.authorHao, Len_HK
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dc.description.abstractIn a dynamic model of sports competition, if spectators care only about contestants'efforts, incentive schemes depending linearly on the final score difference dominate rank order schemes based only on who wins. If spectators also care about suspense, defined as valuing more contestants' efforts when the game is closer, rank order schemes can dominate linear score difference schemes, and this will be the case when the demand for suspense is sufficiently high. Under additional assumptions, we show that the optimal rank order scheme dominates a broad class of incentive schemes. © The Author(s). Journal compilation © 2009 by the Royal Economic Society.en_HK
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