objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied … discrimination, namely, change of the contestants ́prize valuations as well as bias of the impact of their efforts. Optimal twofold … discrimination is often superior to any single mode of discrimination under any logit CSF. Our main result establishes that …