Simple equilibria in general contests

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2022.05.006MaRDI QIDQ2155902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe, Oliver Gürtler

Publication date 15 July 2022

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2022.05.006

zbMATH Keywords

contest theoryheterogeneityriskstochastic dominancesymmetric equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Noncooperative games (91A10) Equilibrium refinements (91A11)

Recommendations

• Contests with a constrained choice set of effort
• Contests with three or more heterogeneous agents
• Contests where there is variation in the marginal productivity of effort
• Contests with an uncertain number of prizes with a fixed total value
• All-Pay Contests

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Cited in

(17)

• Contest with pre-contest investment
• A note on modelling tournaments
• Competition and equilibrium effort choice
• Contests with a constrained choice set of effort
• Equilibrium learning in simple contests
• Contest design and heterogeneity
• The theory of contests: a survey
• Contests with productive effort
• Accuracy in contests: players' perspective
• Mixed equilibria in Tullock contests
• Contests where there is variation in the marginal productivity of effort
• Optimal tie-breaking rules
• Equilibrium effort in games with homogeneous production functions and homogeneous valuation
• Effort discrimination and curvature of contest technology in conflict networks
• The role of noise variance on effort in group contests
• Hunting for the discouragement effect in contests
• Player strength and effort in contests

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