Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Sabotage in Asymmetric Contests – An Experimental Analysis
Author-Name: Christine Harbring
Author-Name: Bernd Irlenbusch
Author-Name: Matthias Kräkel
Author-Name: Reinhard Selten
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Classification-JEL: C91, J33, J41, C72
Keywords: Contest, Experiments, Sabotage, Tournament
Abstract:  In a contest players compete for winning a prize by effort and thereby increasing their probability of winning. 
	Contestants, however, could also improve their own relative position by harming the other players. We experimentally 
	analyze contests with heterogeneous agents who may individually sabotage each other. Our results suggest that sabotaging 
	behavior systematically varies with the composition of different types of agents in a contest. Moreover, if the saboteur's 
	identity is revealed sabotage decreases while retaliation motives prevail.
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Length: 36
Creation-Date: 2004-07	
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File-URL: http://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/bgsepapers/bonedp/bgse12_2004.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse12_2004