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Task arrangement in team competitions

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  • Lu, Jingfeng
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In this paper, we study task arrangement in competitions between two teams, each with two players. Two complementary tasks, together with a multiplicative random factor, jointly determine a team’s performance. Each player is responsible for one task on a team, and the team with better performance wins. We show that equilibrium actions do not depend on whether the tasks are conducted simultaneously in a single stage or sequentially, with one task in each stage. We further find that each team should allocate their players according to their comparative advantages in different tasks to maximize the team’s winning chance.

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  • Lu, Jingfeng & Lu, David, 2020. "Task arrangement in team competitions," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:193:y:2020:i:c:s0165176520302159
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109329
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    Keywords

    Comparative advantage; Complementarity; Discriminatory power; Multitask contest; Team competition;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions

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