ANTI-TANKING PAIR MATCHING BEFORE AN ELIMINATION PHASE OF A TWO-PHASE TOURNAMENT

Perverse incentives are ubiquitous in different economic settings.In sports, they often take the form of temptation to deliberately lose matches (the phenomenon known as tanking or sandbagging).In practice, there were even such pathological situations as when a soccer team intentionally scored an own goal.We show how and when the temptation is gene

AbstractThis paper examines the micro-level link turbo air m3f24-1-n between migrant remittances and state legitimacy.The paper argues that there are two theoretical channels through which remittances may ultimately erode state legitimacy.First, remittance income earners may use remittance income to bribe state institutions, and thus may feel that