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Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019

There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of …

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Burning out in sequential elimination contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Burning Out in Sequential Elimination Contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2004

. I discuss some applications such as boxing contests, salary caps in the NBA, and incentives in academia …-powered incentives in earlier rounds, and (iii) the playing field is even; no contestant is outstanding. I present a model which captures …

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The design of rent-seeking competitions : committees, preliminary and final contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - In: Public choice 99 (1999) 1/2, pp. 63-76

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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009

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Productive versus destructive efforts in contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - In: European journal of political economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 461-468

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A nested contest : Tullock meets the all-pay auction

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2012

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A nested contest : Tullock meets the all-pay auction

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2012

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...

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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - In: Social choice and welfare 37 (2011) 1, pp. 81-95

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Sabotage in contests : an overview

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2013

This paper reviews the relatively small literature on sabotage in contests. It looks at both the formal game-theoretic literature and the empirical and experimental literatures. The treatment is intended to be intuitive with minimal use of technical jargon.

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