Contest design and heterogeneity

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2013.06.029zbMATH Open1284.91194OpenAlexW1980104749MaRDI QIDQ2446465FDOQ2446465

Authors: Rudi Stracke 

Publication date: 17 April 2014

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.06.029

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zbMATH Keywords

heterogeneitystructural variationcontest design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of game theory (91A80) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

Cites Work

• Contest architecture
• Asymmetric contests with general technologies
• Experimental comparison of multi-stage and one-stage contests
• The optimal multi-stage contest

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• Costly information providing in binary contests
• Centralized vs decentralized contests
• Head starts in dynamic tournaments?
• Strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players
• Your failure is my opportunity -- effects of elimination in contests
• Contest with pre-contest investment
• Accuracy in contests: players' perspective
• Ex ante heterogeneity in all-pay many-player auctions with Pareto distribution of costs

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