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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Egile nagusia: Morgan, John
Beste egile batzuk: Tumlinson, Justin, Vardy, Felix
Formatua: Aldizkaria
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Saila:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/231
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Sarrera elektronikoa:Full text available on IMF