players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition …

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …

For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and …

experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow …

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an … appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze …

We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of … contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players … the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies …

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest … candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent wins the contest in case of a tie. Theory predicts that in the presence of …

In a contest players compete for winning a prize by effort and thereby increasing their probability of winning … systematically varies with the composition of different types of agents in a contest. Moreover, if the saboteur's identity is …

players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition …