Search Results - subject:"contest success functions"

Alcalde, José; Dahm, Matthias - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2007

We analyze (non-deterministic) contests with anonymous contest success functions. There is no restriction on the number …

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L' (absence d')impact de l'impact : pourquoi les évaluations d'impact conduisent rarement à une prise de décision politique fondée sur les faits

Arcand, Jean-Louis L. - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 21 (2013) 4, pp. 193-218

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Endogenous contest success functions: a mechanism design approach

Polishchuk, Leonid; Tonis, Alexander - In: Economic Theory 52 (2013) 1, pp. 271-297

We describe optimal contest success functions (CSF) which maximize expected revenues of an administrator who allocates …

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L'(absence d') impact de l'impact : pourquoi les évaluations d'impact conduisent rarement à une prise de décision politique fondée sur les faits

Arcand, Jean-Louis - In: Revue d’économie du développement 21 (2013) 4, pp. 193-218

A recurring puzzle to many academics and some policymakers is why impact evaluations, which have become something of a cottage industry in the development field, have so little impact on actual policymaking. In this paper, I study the impact of impact evaluations. I show, in a simple Bayesian...

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Technology of military conflict, military spending, and war

Hwang, Sung-Ha - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 1/2, pp. 226-236

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Resource wars and confiscation risk

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2012

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Resource Wars and Confiscation Risk

Ploeg, Frederick van der - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012

Resource wars can be modeled with two-way regime switch uncertainty and contest success functions. Fighting is more …

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Technology of military conflict, military spending, and war

Hwang, Sung-Ha - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 1, pp. 226-236

two commonly used contest success functions, the difference and ratio forms, share. Using this property, named the … constant elasticity of augmentation, we construct a new class of contest success functions, hence generalizing the two forms …

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Technology of military con ict, military spending, and war

Hwang, Sung-Ha - Research Institute for Market Economy, Sogang University - 2011

commonly used contest success functions, the dierence and ratio forms, share. Using this property, named the constant … elasticity of augmentation, we construct a new class of contest success functions, hence generalizing the two forms. We provide …

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A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions

Jia, Hao - In: Public Choice 135 (2008) 3, pp. 125-130

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