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Coopetition in Group Contest
Kiss, Hubert Janos - 2019
There are situations in which competitors ally to pursue a common objective. This simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition is called coopetition and we study it theoretically and experimentally in a group contest setup. More concretely, we analyze a group contest with a new sharing...
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Coopetition in group contest
Kiss, Hubert J.; Rosa-Garcia, Alfonso; Zhukova, Vita - 2019
There are situations in which competitors ally to pursue a common objective. This simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition is called coopetition and we study it theoretically and experimentally in a group contest setup. More concretely, we analyze a group contest with a new sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016453
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Prize Sharing Rules in Collective Contests : When Does Group Size Matter?
Gupta, Dhritiman - 2020
In this paper we deal with situations of collective contests between two groups over a private prize. A well known way to divide the prize within the winning group is the prize sharing rule introduced by Nitzan, 1991. Since its introduction it has become a standard in the collective contests...
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Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma
Engel, Christoph - 2006
. It is routinely analysed in terms of game theory. Much less frequently, however, an obvious parallel is drawn. For cartel …A cartel is socially not desirable. But is it a normative problem? And has merger control reason to be concerned about … tacit collusion? Neither is evident once one has seen that the members of a cartel face a problem of strategic interaction …
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Tournaments, Coalitions, and Truthfulness
Brown, Murray; Chiang, Shin-Hwan - 2008
effort and sabotage on a prize set by a principal) is extended to allow for coalitions. Using a sequential coalition … formation model with a coalition externality (larger coalitions make self-enforcing sabotage and synergy strategies more … effective), coalition members coordinate their sabotage-synergy activities. Our main result is a sufficient condition for the …
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Imperfect certification
Gu, Yiquan (contributor) - 2008
This paper proposes a model for a certification market with an imperfect testing technology. Such a technology only assures that whenever two products are tested the higher quality product is more likely to pass than the lower quality one. When only one certifier with such testing technology is...
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Strategic mismatches in competing teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...
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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests : an experimental analysis ; conference paper
Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of different prize structures on the effort choices of participants in two-stage elimination contests. A format with a single prize is shown to maximize total effort over both stages, but induces low effort in stage 1 and high effort in stage 2. By contrast, a...
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Optimal contest design when the designer s payoff depends on competitive balance
Runkel, Marco - 2003
This paper investigates optimal contest design when the designer s payoff is increasing in competitive balance between contestants. A two-player contest with asymmetric effort costs (asymmetric abilities) is considered. Competitive balance is measured by the difference in winning probabilities...
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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis
Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.
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