The n-player Tullock contest with complete information is known to admit explicit solutions in special cases, such as … plus the extraction of roots alone. In this sense, the Tullock contest is intractable. We argue that our formal concept of …

prizes, and general contest technologies. A tournament is called horizontally ex-ante fair if symmetric contestants have the …

We explore the influence of cognitive ability and judgment on strategic behavior in the beauty contest game (where the …

Gill and Prowse (2023) study response times using a repeated p-beauty contest (p = 0.7). Looking at between …

We model a rent-seeking contest among two 'identity ideologues', differentially located along a uni …-dimensional identity continuum, and a 'mercenary', who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity … that, under reasonable restrictions, the following hold. A decline in the mercenary's cost of contest effort reduces …

It is shown that the two-player Tullock contest admits precisely one equilibrium in randomized strategies. …