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A simple dynamic contest with a parameterized strength of competition

García Martínez, José A. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 3, pp. 305-332

This paper analyzes the effect of competition in a dynamic contest in which agents of two types (A and B) differ in …{k}{n} determines the proportion of winning agents in each group. This ratio also describes the strength of competition in the group …: the lower \frac{k}{n} is, the higher the level of competition is. Our results show that type A eventually dominates the …

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Productive and unproductive competition : a unifiedframework

Guerra, Alice; Luppi, Barbara; Parisi, Francesco - In: Economia politica : journal of analytical and … 36 (2019) 3, pp. 785-804

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Choosing fair lotteries to defeat the competition

Wagman, Liad; Conitzer, Vincent - In: International journal of game theory : official journal … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 91-129

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Choosing Fair Lotteries to Defeat the Competition

Wagman, Liad - 2013

We study the following game: each agent i chooses a lottery over nonnegative numbers whose expectation is equal to his budget b_i. The agent with the highest realized outcome wins (and agents only care about winning). This game is motivated by various real-world settings where agents each choose...

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Competition for Procurement Shares

Alcalde, José - 2011

We propose a new procurement procedure which allocates shares of the total amount to be procured depending on the bids of suppliers. Among the properties of the mechanism are:(i) Bidders have an incentive to participate in the procurement procedure, as equilibrium payoffs are strictly...

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