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Efficient tournaments within teams

Efficient tournaments within teams
Efficient tournaments within teams
We analyze incentive problems in team and partnership structures where the only available information to condition a contract on is a partial and noisy ranking which specifies who comes first in efforts among the competing partners. This enables us to ensure both first-best efficient effort levels for all partners and the redistribution of output only among partners. Our efficiency result is obtained for a wide range of cost and production functions.
0741-6261
103-119
Gershkov, Alex
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Li, Jianpei
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Schweinzer, Paul
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Gershkov, Alex
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Li, Jianpei
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Schweinzer, Paul
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Gershkov, Alex, Li, Jianpei and Schweinzer, Paul (2009) Efficient tournaments within teams. RAND Journal of Economics, 40 (1), 103-119.

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We analyze incentive problems in team and partnership structures where the only available information to condition a contract on is a partial and noisy ranking which specifies who comes first in efforts among the competing partners. This enables us to ensure both first-best efficient effort levels for all partners and the redistribution of output only among partners. Our efficiency result is obtained for a wide range of cost and production functions.

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Published date: 2009

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Local EPrints ID: 503667
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/503667
ISSN: 0741-6261
PURE UUID: 972e8428-a71e-4bec-99cf-f86f93fef29b
ORCID for Alex Gershkov: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6062-8428

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Author: Alex Gershkov ORCID iD
Author: Jianpei Li
Author: Paul Schweinzer

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