Search Results - subject:"prize allocation"

Cooperation of customers in traveling salesman problems with profits

Osicka, Ondrej; Guajardo, Mario; Jörnsten, Kurt O. - 2019

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Multi-prize contests with risk-averse players

Fu, Qiang; Wang, Xiruo; Wu, Zenan - In: Games and economic behavior 129 (2021), pp. 513-535

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819897

Multi-prize contests with expectation-based loss-averse players

Fu, Qiang; Wang, Xiruo; Zhu, Yuxuan - In: Economics letters 205 (2021), pp. 1-6

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The distribution of talent across contests

Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 128 (2018) 609, pp. 471-509

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The distribution of talent across contests

Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in determining contest choice. Sorting exists only when the...

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Simultaneous vs. sequential crowdsourcing contests

Hu, Ming; Wang, Lu - 2017

In a crowdsourcing contest, innovation is outsourced by a firm to an open crowd that competes in generating innovative solutions. Given that the projects typically consist of multiple attributes, how should the firm optimally design a crowdsourcing contest for such a project? We consider two...

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Prize and incentives in double-elimination tournaments

Huang, Lingbo - In: Economics letters 147 (2016), pp. 116-120

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Allocation of prizes in contests with size effects

Lee, Sanghack; Lee, Shi-young - In: International economic journal 29 (2015) 2, pp. 343-358

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No fight, no loss : underinvestment in experimental contest games

Godoy, Sara; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Morales, … - In: Economics of governance 16 (2015) 1, pp. 53-72

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No fight, no loss: underinvestment in experimental contest games

Godoy, Sara; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel; Morales, Antonio - In: Economics of Governance 16 (2015) 1, pp. 53-72

simultaneous presence of three factors (simultaneous bids, random prize allocation if no bids occur and fixed matching) allows … the observability and timing of preceding bids, allocation rules for the situation when no bids occur (random prize … allocation vs. prize loss) and matching protocol for repeated contests involving pairs of bidders. Our results show that the …

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