
Abstract
Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified which determine a player’s doping decision — a cost effect, a likelihood effect and a windfall-profit effect. Moreover, we discuss whether the favorite or the underdog is more likely to be doped, the impact of doping on overall performance, the influence of increased heterogeneity on doping, the welfare implications of doping, and possible prevention of doping.
Item Type: | Paper |
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Keywords: | contest, doping, drugs, fraud in research, tournament. |
Faculties: | Special Research Fields > Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems Special Research Fields > Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems > B4 - Die Gestaltung von Turnieren im Rahmen der Corporate Governance |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
JEL Classification: | J3, K42, M5 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-13502-8 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 13502 |
Date Deposited: | 10. Jul 2012, 13:11 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 12:53 |