suppliers. We also compare other common contests, in particular, fixed-prize tournaments and auctions. Like bonus tournaments …This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research …, auctions implement the socially optimal diversity, but usually with higher rents for the suppliers. Fixed-prize tournaments …

success function. Our framework includes Tullock contests, Lazear-Rosen tournaments and all-pay contests as special cases …We consider the design of contests for n agents when the principal can choose both the prize profile and the contest …

To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single …

the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous …