Alexander Matros

Moore School of Business

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1014 Greene St

Columbia, SC 29208

United States

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1.

Online Cheating Amid COVID-19

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2020
Eren Bilen and Alexander Matros
Dickinson College and Moore School of Business
Downloads 716 (72,846)
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education, cheating, online examinations, online chess

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Economic Incentives of the Olympic Games

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Sep 2004
Alexander Matros and Soiliou Daw Namoro
Moore School of Business and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
Downloads 588 (93,511)
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Tournaments, Olympic Games, Strategic Budget Allocation

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The Queen's Gambit: Explaining the Superstar Effect Using Evidence from Chess

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Feb 2022
Alexander Matros and Eren Bilen
Moore School of Business and Dickinson College
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superstar, tournament, Effort, peer-effect, chess

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Contests on Networks

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 May 2018
Alexander Matros and David Rietzke
Moore School of Business and Lancaster University - Department of Economics
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Network Games, Contests, Exclusion Principle, Bipartite Graph, Tullock Contest

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Sequential Contests with Incomplete Information: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Oct 2022
Philip Brookins, Alexander Matros and Foteini Tzachrista
University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business and University of Illinois at Chicago
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contest, sequential moves, heterogeneity, incomplete information, investment heuristic

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Stochastic Imitation in Finite Games

SSE/EFI Economics and Finance Working Paper Series No. 363
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 May 2003
Jens Josephson and Alexander Matros
Stockholm University and Moore School of Business
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evolutionary game theory, bounded rationality, imitation, Markov chain, stochastic stability, Pareto dominance

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Coordination in a Changing Environment

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2014
Alexander Matros and Scott Moser
Moore School of Business and University of Nottingham - School of Politics and International Relations
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Stochastic Stability, Networks, Coordination, Mobile agents

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Choosing the Prize in Contests

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2022
Nicolas de Roos, Alexander Matros, Vladimir Smirnov and Zehra Valencia
University of Liverpool, Moore School of Business, The University of Sydney - School of Economics and University of South Carolina - Department of Economics
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Contests

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Shipwrecks and Treasure Hunters

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 May 2017
Nicolas de Roos, Alexander Matros, Vladimir Smirnov and Andrew Wait
University of Liverpool, Moore School of Business, The University of Sydney - School of Economics and University of Sydney
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R&D, search, uncertainty

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Lloyd Shapley and Chess with Imperfect Information

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jan 2018
Alexander Matros
Moore School of Business
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Imperfect Information, Chess, Kriegspiel, Stochastic Games

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Sunk costs, entry and clustering

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2024
Alexander Matros, Vladimir Smirnov and Andrew Wait
Moore School of Business, The University of Sydney - School of Economics and University of Sydney
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timing games, asymmetric firms, clustering, inefficient entry

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Search Without Looking

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2022
Alexander Matros, Natalia Ponomareva, Vladimir Smirnov and Andrew Wait
Moore School of Business, Macquarie University - Division of Economic and Financial Studies, The University of Sydney - School of Economics and University of Sydney
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search, unobservability, duplication, regulatory design

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Microfoundations of Work Intensification and Burnout

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 May 2023
Alexander Matros, Vladimir Smirnov, Andrew Wait and Helen Zhang
Moore School of Business, The University of Sydney - School of Economics, University of Sydney and The University of Sydney - School of Economics
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task assignment, job intensification, burnout, double marginalization

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Contests With Participant-Dependent Prizes

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 05 Apr 2021
Nicolas de Roos, Alexander Matros and Vladimir Smirnov
University of Liverpool, Moore School of Business and The University of Sydney - School of Economics
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contests, participant-dependent prize

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Public Good Provision with a Distributor

Queen’s Management School Working Paper 2022/08
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Oct 2022
Sakib Anwar, Alexander Matros and Sonali SenGupta
University of Winchester, Moore School of Business and Queens University Belfast
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Public goods, Embezzlement, Distributor