We develop a model of contests on networks. Each player is “connected” to a set of contests and exerts a single effort … many well-known results from the contest literature can be obtained by varying the structure of the network. Our framework …

endogenous structure of collaboration is represented by a weighted network. The agents are forward-looking and capable of … solution. I find stable networks in which agents collaborate only within exclusive groups. Both an absence of intergroup …

≤ N, full-support type distributions, and network games. …