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Romain Gauriot, Lionel Page, Does Success Breed Success? a Quasi-Experiment on Strategic Momentum in Dynamic Contests, The Economic Journal, Volume 129, Issue 624, November 2019, Pages 3107–3136, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez040
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Abstract
We study how agents adapt their behaviour to variations of incentives in dynamic contests. We investigate a real dynamic contest with large stakes: professional tennis matches. Situations in which balls bounce very close to the court’s lines are used as the setting of a quasi-experiment providing random variations in winning probability. We find evidence of a momentum effect for men whereby winning a point has a positive causal impact on the probability to win the next one. This behaviour is compatible with a reaction to the asymmetry of incentives between leaders and followers. We do not find momentum for women.
