This paper studies a contest in which players with unobservable types may form an alliance in a pre-stage of the game … of alliance formation in any equilibrium. In this case there exists a pooling equilibrium without alliances with a unique … effort choice in the contest and there exist equilibria in which all types prefer to form an alliance. If the formation of an …

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifies the winning probabilities of …

We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of … contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players …, job promotion competitions, or sport contests. We study the general model of contest with attacks and defence and propose …

in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an …

contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each … component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically and …

We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each …