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Winning by Losing

Published:2017-05-16 Issue:8 Volume:19 Page:1122-1146
ISSN:1527-0025
Container-title:Journal of Sports Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Sports Economics

Author:

Dagaev Dmitry¹,Sonin Konstantin¹²

Affiliation:

1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

2. Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Abstract

In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any participant cannot benefit by losing instead of winning. We show that tournament systems, consisting of multiple round-robin and knockout tournaments with noncumulative prizes, which are ubiquitous around the world, are generically incentive incompatible. We use our model to discuss potential remedies and applications.

Funder

Higher School of Economics Academic Fund Program

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1527002517704022

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