This thesis covers several aspects of competition economics which are analyzed empirically or experimentally. It can be divided into two parts. Chapters 2 and 3 study how competition outcomes (in contests, respectively consumer markets) are affected by the design of the competitive environment....

In most games, for equilibrium to result, players need to forecast the equilibrium strategies of others. We elicit forecasts of outcomes in a series of hawk-dove (aka chicken) games played by other players. We ask whether these forecasts are consistent with any correlated equilibrium of a class...