- Speaker
- Date
- Friday 3 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- EB-12
- Building
- E Building
The Incentive Effect of Handicaps in Tournaments
We seek to answer whether handicaps can motivate agents to exert maximum effort in heterogeneous contest. To this end, we study data from swimming relay competitions where swimmers with heterogeneous abilities inherit leads or lags from their previous team members. Inheriting a lead or lag corresponds to a head start or handicap affecting the effective level of heterogeneity in races.
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The ECASE team
Jan van Ours, Thomas Peeters, Francesco Principe and Sam Hoey