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Title: | Doping in sport : a behavioural economics perspective | ||||||
Author: | Leadbetter, Matthew |
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0000 0004 8505 1463
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Awarding Body: | University of Kent | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Kent | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2020 | ||||||
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This thesis primarily aims to provide a solid theoretical understanding behind the incentive structures, decision making and rationality of athletes who decide to utilize doping decisions within a competitive sporting contest. This thesis analyzes the rationality behind eliciting a doping decision, outline a two-stage model of doping in sport in which athletes choose how much to dope and then how much effort to exert, with payoffs determined by an all-pay auction. We also show that a winner-takes-all prize structure leads to maximum effort (when effort can be monitored) but also maximum cheating when it cannot and explore the complimentary idea that people behave more dishonestly in a sporting environment than they do in other environments through theoretical and experimental analysis.
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Supervisor: | Cartwright, Edward ; Cartwright, Anna | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.797764 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
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