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Inequity Aversion in Tournaments

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Dominique Demougin
Claude Fluet

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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance evaluation is costly. The principal never benefits from empathy between the workers, by he may benefit from their propensity for envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less envious ones when they are low.

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Keywords: Tournaments; Inequity aversion; Envy; Incentives; Performance;

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