Envy and loss aversion in tournaments
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Tournament; Envy; Loss aversion; Experiment;All these keywords.
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- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
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