Choosing Competition on Behalf of Someone Else

The authors thank department editor Yan Chen, an anonymous associate editor, and three anonymous referees for comments that substantially improved this paper. Moreover, the authors thank Loukas Balafoutas for his support and time spent on lively discussions of the article; Daniele Nosenzo, Ernesto Reuben, Martin Sefton, Matthias Dahm, Alex Possajennikov, Sigve Tjøtta, and Rita Ginja for their valuable comments; Jose Guinot Saporta for his excellent programming assistance; and participants of Brown Bag seminars at the University of Nottingham, the University of Bergen, Norwegian School of Economics, and the University of Gothenburg. All authors contributed equally to this study and share the responsibility for its content. The authors declare no competing interests. The data that support the findings of this study are made available upon publication. The file containing only the preregistered analysis is available from the corresponding author upon request. Please note that deviations from the preregistered analysis are mainly a result of the reviewing processes. Importantly, the main results presented in the paper remain the same despite deviations from the preregistered analysis.