The Limits of Meritocracy /
We show that too much meritocracy, modeled as accuracy of performance ranking in contests, can be a bad thing: in contests with homogeneous agents, it reduces output and is Pareto inefficient. In contests with sufficiently heterogeneous agents, discouragement and complacency effects further reduce t...
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Hizkuntza: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2018.
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Saila: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2018/231 |
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Sarrera elektronikoa: | Full text available on IMF |