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A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...
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on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light …
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consumer surplus. We relate our findings to competition cases in digital markets. …
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In a lab experiment, we analyze the benefits of increasing competition on auction platforms hosting multiple … auctioneers of a homogeneous good. We find that increasing competition by merging separated individual auctions increases market …
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