We report the results of laboratory experiments on rent-seeking contests with endogenous participation. Theory predicts …

-life contests. We propose a model where the principal of a contest has commitment power to verifiably disclose contestants’ types …

We consider imperfectly discriminating, common-value, all-pay auctions (or contests) in which some players know the …

-order contests with complete information, in which each player’s strategy generates direct or indirect affine “spillover” effects … important economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where …, tournaments, R&D races, models of litigation, and a host of other contests. Copyright The Author(s) 2012 …

level of resources across a set of contests. In the traditional formulation of the Colonel Blotto game, the players …’ resources are “use it or lose it” in the sense that any resources that are not allocated to one of the contests are forfeited …

We investigate the pure-strategy Nash equilibria of asymmetric, winner-take-all, imperfectly discriminating contests … bounded, limiting total expenditure is equal to the value of the prize in large contests even if contestants differ. Partial …