In an influential paper, Fang (Public Choice 112: 351–371, 2002) asserts that the exclusion principle discovered by Baye et al. (1993) for all-pay auction does not apply to lottery in the case in which an organizer cares about the aggregate effort. Serena (2017) shows that the exclusion...

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...

This paper examines behavior (the oretically and experimentally) in a two-stage group contest where the fi rst stage comprises of intra - group contests, followed by an inter-group contest in the second stage. Rewards accrue only to the members of the winning group in the inter-group contest,...

This paper considers a situation in which participants with heterogeneous ability types are grouped into different competitions for performance ranking. In a contest, there may be performance spillovers, because of which a participant can benefit from others' performance. A planner can allocate...

This paper considers a situation in which students with heterogeneous ability types are grouped into different competitions for performance ranking. A planner can group the students and design prize structure in each competition in order to maximize the weighted total performance subject to a...