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    Promotion tournaments with multiple tasks

    Kiyotaki, Fumi (2008) Promotion tournaments with multiple tasks. Working Paper. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.

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    Abstract

    This article analyses promotion tournaments where candidates engage in multiple tasks. We consider a promotion rule where the winner of the promotion tournament is randomly selected from the best performers at each task. The promotion tournament can achieve an efficient outcome for any production uncertainty (observability) of tasks and substitutability in the effort cost when employees are risk neutral and homogeneous. The promotion decision should be based much more on the outcome in a more uncertain task. If employees are heterogeneous in their ability to undertake a task, then the outcome of an ability-dependent task should be relied upon more in the promotion decision than the outcome of a simple task.

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    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Tournament, multitask agency, promotion
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2013 07:22
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:06
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7592

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