RT Journal Article
T1 Far above others.
A1 López-Pintado, Dunia
A1 Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel
K1 Competencia (Psicología)
K1 Psicología de las organizaciones
K1 Competencia económica
AB We study the role of competitiveness, via interpersonal comparisons, in a society or a large organization. We consider a dynamic model of effort provision. Agents gain an extra utility by producing an outcome above a “comparison threshold” derived from the outcomes of their reference group in a random network. There are two different sources of competitiveness: the stringency of the comparison threshold and the weight given to relative performance in the utility function. We find that these two sources operate in opposite directions. Societies with higher competitiveness may not necessarily lead to more competitive outcomes (i.e., higher effort provision). Finally, we show that the effects of an increase in the density and variance of the network crucially depend on the stringency of the comparison threshold.
PB Elsevier
YR 2021
FD 2021-10-29
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30253
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30253
LA eng
NO Dunia López-Pintado, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Far above others, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 198, 2021, 105376.
NO Artículo publicado como open access en Journal of Economic Theory en el volumen de diciembre de 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2021.105376). Se adjunta la versión publicada, con acceso abierto abonado por la Universidad Pablo de Olavide (SHERPA https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/13874).
NO Support from Ministerio de Ciencias, Innovación y Universidades (ECO2017-83147-c2-1-p, ECO2017-83147-c2-2-p and RTI2018-097620-B-I00), Junta de Andalucía – FEDER (P18-FR-3840, P18-RT-2135 and UMA18-FEDERJA-243) and Universidad Pablo de Olavide (for the open access payment) is gratefully acknowledged.
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