We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning …

We model the dynamic contest between two players as a game of tug-of-war with a Tullock contest success function (CSF …

also be used to formulate and solve other contest design questions that have so far proven intractable. …

macroeconomics combined with the underlying experimental and behavioral Beauty Contest (BC) literature, which the authors review in … this paper. They introduce the reader to variations of the Keynesian Beauty Contest (Keynes, The general theory of …

upstream neighbour. The probability of winning a military conflict is determined by a contest success function which depends on …

advancing R&D. A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases investments of …

(1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric … technologies and skill distributions. We construct a link between our contest model and expected utility theory and exploit this … link to revisit important comparative statics results of contest theory and show how these can be overturned. Finally, we …