From Custer to Thermopylae: last stand behavior in multi-stage contests

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2014.06.003zbMATH Open1302.91105OpenAlexW2149475653MaRDI QIDQ485797FDOQ485797

Authors: Alan Gelder 

Publication date: 14 January 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.06.003

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zbMATH Keywords

all-pay auctiondynamic contestlast standracewinning momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) 2-person games (91A05) Multistage and repeated games (91A20)

Cites Work

• Perfect Equilibrium in a Model of a Race
• The all-pay auction with complete information
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• On the existence and uniqueness of pure Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games
• Multi-battle contests
• Best-of-three all-pay auctions
• A Model of the Evolution of Duopoly: Does the Asymmetry between Firms Tend to Increase or Decrease?
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• Bandwagons and Momentum in Sequential Voting

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• Optimal prize design in team contests with pairwise battles
• Optimal and fair prizing in sequential round-robin tournaments: experimental evidence
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• Eternal peace in the tug-of-war?
• Prize formation and sharing in multi-stage contests

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