Risk taking in selection contests

DOI10.1016/S0899-8256(02)00538-9MaRDI QIDQ1811558zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans K. Hvide, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen

Publication date 17 June 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0899-8256(02)00538-9

zbMATH Keywords

ContestRisk takingSelectionTournament

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recommendations

• Modifying Variability and Correlations in Winner-Take-All Contests
• Contingent payments in selection contests
• The effect of competition on risk taking in contests
• Contests with three or more heterogeneous agents
• Revenue in contests with many participants

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3727393 (Why is no real title available?)
• On the evolution of attitudes towards risk in winner-take-all games
• Rent, risk, and replication: Preference adaptation in winner-take-all markets.

Cited in

(19)

• The effect of competition on risk taking in contests
• How tournament incentives affect asset markets: a comparison between winner-take-all tournaments and elimination contests
• Optimally biased Tullock contests
• Biased contests for symmetric players
• Banks, relative performance, and sequential contagion
• Contingent payments in selection contests
• An envelope approach to tournament design
• Modifying Variability and Correlations in Winner-Take-All Contests
• Competitive problem solving and the optimal prize schemes
• Degree of difficulty as the objective of contest design
• Optimally biased contests with draws
• Submission costs in risk-taking contests
• Selectivity in hierarchical social systems
• Hierarchies and promotions in political institutions: accountability and selection
• Strategic choice of variability in multiround contests and contests with handicaps
• On the optimal design of all-pay auctions
• Contests to become CEO: incentives, selection and handicaps
• Optimal risk taking in an uneven tournament game with risk averse players
• The selection efficiency of tournaments

This page was built for publication: Risk taking in selection contests

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1811558)