Sabotage in Rent-Seeking Contests

By Kai A. Konrad. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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The Dark Side of Competition for Status (2014, background): “…to engage in unethical activities in order to improve their ranking, which may have important detrimental effects for the firm (Lazear, 1989; Konrad, 2000; Chen, 2003).1 For instance, a worker can increase his chances of winning a contest by reducing the output of a person with whom he is…”
Sabotage in contests: a survey (2015, background): “This possibility was first described by Konrad (2000).”
Violence, bribery, and fraud: the political economy of elections in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “In addition, existing models analyzing the patterns and consequences of negative campaigning closely match the main idea behind our representation of voter intimidation (Skaperdas and Grofman 1995; Konrad 2000).”
The theory of contests: a survey (2007, background): “Suppose that the internal allocation of capital depends on the rentseeking activities made by the managers of divisions.”
Rigging elections with violence (2005, background): “literature on "sabotage" in rent seeking contests (Konrad, 2000), innovation processes (Baumol, 1992) and promotion tournaments (Lazear, 1989).”
Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2012, unknown): “Sabotage is therefore typically welfare damaging, either in a direct way by reducing output or performance of competitors or indirectly if it reduces the agents’ incentives to exert productive effort (Konrad, 2000; Carpenter et al., 2010; Harbring and Irlenbusch, 2011).”