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An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 52 (2013) 3, pp. 833-861

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Exclusion in the all-pay auction: An experimental investigation

Fehr, Dietmar; Schmid, Julia - 2011

Contest or auction designers who want to maximize the overall revenue are frequently concerned with a trade-off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of contestants with high valuations. In our experimental study, we find that it is not profitable to exclude the most able contestant in favor...

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Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games

Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke; Sefton, Martin - 2012

very different effects depending on the contest structure. We observe the highest rent dissipation in stochastic contests … when players only get feedback on own choices and earnings. In these contests aggregate expenditures usually exceed the …. In contrast, in deterministic contests average expenditures converge to equilibrium levels when subjects only get …

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Exclusion in the all-pay auction : an experimental investigation

Fehr, Dietmar; Schmid, Julia - 2014 - Rev.

Contest or auction designers who want to maximize the overall revenue are frequently concerned with a trade-off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of bidders with high valuations. In our experimental study, we find that it is not profitable to exclude the most able bidder in favor of...

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Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games

Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke; Sefton, Martin - In: European economic review : EER 64 (2013), pp. 223-240

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Behavioral dimensions of contests

Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2014

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Overbidding and heterogeneous behavior in contest experiments : a comment on the endowment effect

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Moffatt, Peter G. - In: Journal of economic surveys 31 (2017) 2, pp. 572-576

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Exclusion in the all-pay auction : an experimental investigation

Fehr, Dietmar; Schmid, Julia - 2017 - Revised version of the WZB Discussion Paper SP II 2014-206

Contest designers or managers who want to maximize the overall revenue of a contest (relative performance scheme) are frequently concerned with a trade-off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of contestants with high valuations. In our experimental study, we find that it is not profitable...

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A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Sheremeta, … - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 18 (2015) 4, pp. 609-669

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Reputational concerns in repeated rent-seeking contests

Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke - 2016

We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing …

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