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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Автор: Morgan, John
Інші автори: Tumlinson, Justin, Vardy, Felix
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/231
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