The optimal sorting of players in contests between groups

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2011.03.002MaRDI QIDQ645666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitry Ryvkin

Publication date 10 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2011.03.002

zbMATH Keywords

groupssortingcontestheterogeneous playerstournament design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of game theory (91A80) Mathematical economics (91B99)

Recommendations

• Optimal prize allocations in group contests
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• Effort maximization in asymmetric contest games with heterogeneous contestants
• Risk preference heterogeneity in group contests
• The effort-maximizing contest with heterogeneous prizes

Cites work

• A model of strategic delegation in contests between groups
• All-pay auctions with risk-averse players
• Asymmetric First-Price Auctions—A Perturbation Approach
• Asymmetric contests with general technologies
• Contest success functions
• Contests with group-specific public-good prizes
• Low and high types in asymmetric first-price auctions
• Revenue equivalence in asymmetric auctions
• Strategy and dynamics in contests
• The collective action problem: within-group cooperation and between-group competition in a repeated rent-seeking game
• The theory of contests: a survey

Cited in

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• Group size and group success in conflicts
• Optimal prize allocations in group contests
• Intra-group heterogeneity in collective contests
• Correlated play in weakest-link and best-shot group contests
• Contests between groups of unknown size
• Optimal decision of aggregation method in group contest: going all out vs. staying half-hearted
• The role of noise variance on effort in group contests
• The assortative matching scheme in a survival battle
• Risk preference heterogeneity in group contests
• Common-value group contests with asymmetric information
• Ability grouping in contests
• An analysis of group contests with the possibility of a draw

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