Economics Research Seminar Series: Jun Zhang

Nonparametric Identification of Tournaments: Ex Ante vs Ex Post Shocks. Associate Prof. Jun Zhang, UTS. 

In this paper, we develop a nonparametric identification method for tournament models. We then apply the methods to compare models with ex-ante and ex-post shocks. 

We find that the model with ex-post shocks outperforms the one with ex-ante shocks. Counterfactuals on optimal prize structures reveal that choosing the wrong model leads to misleading results.   

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