Cheating in Contests

Preston, Ian; Szymanski, Stefan

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“…The market for ticket 1 is captured, but then team 2 will be bribed with probability µ 2 in which case punter I will bet on ticket 1. Formally we can set π 2 = φ 1 , µ 1 = 0, 2 = 0 and adjust for sharing of market 2 in equation (10) and 1 > 0 but arbitrarily close to zero in equation (11) and reproduce the first bookie's deviation payoff as…”

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Match-fixing under competitive odds

Bag¹,

Saha²

2011

Games and Economic Behavior

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Two bookmakers compete in Bertrand fashion while setting odds on the outcomes of a sporting contest where an influential punter (or betting syndicate) may bribe some player(s) to fix the contest. Zero profit and bribe prevention may not always hold together. When the influential punter is quite powerful, the bookies may coordinate on prices and earn positive profits for fear of letting the 'lemons' (i.e., the influential punter) in. On the other hand, sometimes the bookies make zero profits but also admit match-fixing.

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“…The bookies, punter I, and the players -all initially observe the draw p 1 . 11 The prosecution need not observe p 1 , or even when the prosecution observes p 1 it does not employ sophisticated game-theoretic inferences whether match-fixing has occurred or not based on the betting odds and p 1 .…”

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Match-fixing under competitive odds

Bag¹,

Saha²

2011

Games and Economic Behavior

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“…The online maze-game applied by them is ideally suited to test cheating, as it provides various functions that allow players with little supervision to systematically better their results. 4 Furthermore, as the game does not automatically count the number of mazes solved, experimenters have to rely on subjects' 2 For an overview over cheating in sport contests see Preston and Szymanski (2003). 3 A related branch of literature looks at sabotage in tournaments which represent situations of heightened competition (for experimental investigation see e.g.…”

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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment

Schwieren

Weichselbaumer

2010

Journal of Economic Psychology

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Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating?A Laboratory Experiment *In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals' performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well as forgery and plagiarism scandals in academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. We find that women react much stronger to competitive pressure by increasing their cheating activity while there is no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact that women, on average, are doing worse with respect to the assigned task. Indeed we find that it is the ability of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor performers significantly increase their cheating behavior under competition which may be a face-saving strategy or an attempt to retain a chance of winning.JEL Classification: C91, J24, J31, M52

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“…Many forms of sport have heavily suffered from doping, consequently leading to a depletion in interest for this kind of sports on the customer's side. According to Preston and Szymanski (2003), there are four basic reasons for why doping can be harmful to sports in general and athletes in particular:…”

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The Economics of Corruption in Sports - The Special Case of Doping

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Deutscher

2014

SSRN Journal

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Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken the character of a systemic threat. In creating unfair advantages, doping distorts the level playing field in sporting competition. With higher stakes involved, such distortions create negative externalities not only on the individual level (e.g. lasting health damages) but also frictions on the aggregate level (e.g. loss of media interest) and erode the principle of sports.In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual drivers to dope, the concomitant detrimental effects and respective countermeasures. In explaining the athlete's motivation to use performance enhancing drugs, we enrich the discussion by adapting insights from behavioral economics. These insights help to understand such an athlete's decision beyond a clear-cut rationale but rather as a product of the interaction with the underlying environment. We stress that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to be evolved and the respective data made publicly available in order to facilitate more extensive studies in the future. So far, the lack of data is alarming, especially in the area of elite sports where the stakes are high and doping has a substantial influence.JEL Classification: D73, K42, L83

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Cheating in Contests

Cited by 134 publications

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Match-fixing under competitive odds

Match-fixing under competitive odds

Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment

The Economics of Corruption in Sports - The Special Case of Doping

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