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Are 18 Holes Enough for Tiger Woods?

Author(s) -

Gürtler Oliver

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

bulletin of economic research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227

H-Index - 29

eISSN - 1467-8586

pISSN - 0307-3378

DOI - 10.1111/j.0307-3378.2006.00244.x

Subject(s) - tournament , promotion (chess) , ask price , selection (genetic algorithm) , economics , tiger , reduction (mathematics) , microeconomics , marketing , business , computer science , finance , political science , law , computer security , artificial intelligence , mathematics , geometry , combinatorics , politics

This article addresses the selection problem in promotion tournaments. I consider a situation with heterogeneous employees and ask whether an employer might be interested in repeating a promotion tournament. On the one hand, this yields a reduction in uncertainty over the employees’ abilities. On the other hand, there are costs if a workplace stays vacant.

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