This paper investigates the association between the intensity of competition and performance in Australia. Survey data from Australian workplaces (1995) are used to assess the association between competition and productivity growth. The main finding is that only in workplaces where there is no principal owner working does competition appear to raise productivity growth. In addition, accounting ...

Economic freedom is known to have a profound effect on the efficient allocation of resources. Without subsidies, tariffs, and other government interventions, economic activity operates in the most efficient manner because of competitive pressures to produce more with fewer inputs. This means that energy use per unit of production is decreased with the presence of free markets (Graph 2). Free ma...

University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Any opinions or claims contained in this Working Paper do not necessarily reflect the views of HSE What is the optimal way to seed a knockout tournament in order to maximize the overall spectator interest in it? Seeding affects the set of matches being played in the tournament, while neutral spectators tend to prefer to watch (i) close and intense ma...

We assume that parents use the signalling intensity of their young to determine how much food they bring to the nest, and that the pattern of food allocation is determined by the signalling intensity and by the intensity of other nonsignalling behaviours that are not perceived by the parents. We explore different ways in which signalling, nonsignalling behaviours and competitive asymmetries mig...

Overlapping talk occurs frequently in multi-party conversations, and is a domain in which speakers may pursue various communicative goals. The current study focuses on turn competition. Specifically, we seek to identify the phonetic differences that discriminate turn-competitive from non-competitive overlaps. Conversation analysis techniques were used to identify competitive and non-competitive...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the intensity and direction of competitive state anxiety, self-confidence and performance in basketball and volleyball players prior to different matches. Male basketball (n=12) and volleyball players (n=12) completed a modified version of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) prior to 11 different matches, and a total o...