4 papers
Swiss-system chess tournaments and unfairness
László Csató, Alex Krumer
The Swiss system is an increasingly popular competition format as it provides a favourable trade-off between the number of matches and ranking accuracy. However, there is no empiri…
Trimming of extreme votes and favoritism: Evidence from the field
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
Despite a large body of theoretical literature on voting mechanisms, there is no documented evidence from real-world panel evaluations about the effect of trimming the extreme vote…
Racial bias, colorism, and overcorrection
Kenneth Colombe, Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill +1
This paper examines whether increased awareness can affect racial bias and colorism. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the widespread publicity of Price and Wolfers (201…
Varying reference-point salience
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
The salience of reference points may theoretically influence the loss aversion mechanism in effort provision. However, we still lack a direct test from real competitive settings th…