which the player expending the greater resources wins. In equilibrium, contest effort concentrates on at most two adjacent …

The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a … revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an … and effectiveness relative to optimal taxation under any contest success function. …

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an … elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of …

I present a two-player nested contest which is a convex combination of two widely studied contests: the Tullock … (lottery) contest and the all-pay auction. A Nash equilibrium exists for all parameters of the nested contest. If and only if … the contest is sufficiently asymmetric, then there is an equilibrium in pure strategies. In this equilibrium, individual …

tournament system induces a higher total output than the optimum premium system. This result occurs because a promotion regime … allows distortion in a contest in favor of winners of previous contests. …

We consider a simple tournament model in which individuals auto-select into the contest on the basis of their commonly … tournament held in the USA. This tournament is divided into different sections, with players being able to play in the section to …

; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest …