prize. Applications of the model include procurement contests and competitions for grants. We prove existence and uniqueness …

This paper presents a strategic model of risk-taking behavior in contests. Formally, we analyze an n-player winner …

-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine spillover effects that … economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where individuals …&D races, models of ligitation, and a host of other contests. …