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Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations

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Matthias Kräkel () (University of Bonn and IZA Bonn)

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Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified which determine a player’s doping decision - a cost effect, a likelihood effect and a windfall-profit effect. Moreover, we discuss whether the favorite or the underdog is more likely to be doped, the impact of doping on overall performance, the influence of increased heterogeneity on doping, the welfare implications of doping, and possible prevention of doping.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2059.

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Keywords: cheating; contest; doping; fraud in research; tournament;

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K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
M5 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics

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