Time-based Team Competition

10:00-11:30, Monday, September 19, 2025

I-206, Boxue Building

Dr. Ailin LENG is an associate researcher at Center for Economic Research, Shandong University. In 2024, she was honored with the title of Taishan Scholar Young Expert. Her primary research focuses on experimental economics and behavioral economics, with an emphasis on continuous-time economic experiments and cooperative and competitive game experiments. She leads the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program project (2024–2027) and the Youth Program project (2019–2022). Her research papers have been published in journals such as Games and Economic Behavior and Experimental Economics.

This study proposes a novel form of team contest. Players exert effort at a steady rate in continuous time. The first team whose accumulated effort hits a threshold wins a prize. Unlike other forms of contests, players face fierce pressure from competing teams every second during the process. Pausing to free-ride can cause teams to fall behind and lose the competition. The experiment further shows that participants have used strategies such as tit-for-tat and conditional cooperation to prevent freeriding behavior. Ultimately, the contributed effort under the equal sharing rule is not different from the proportional and endogenous sharing rules.

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