Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts … while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all …-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts … while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all …-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts … while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all …-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts … while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all … canonical contests. First, we review studies investigating the basic structure of contests, including the number of players and …

This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research … suppliers. We also compare other common contests, in particular, fixed-prize tournaments and auctions. Like bonus tournaments …

This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research …

The literature on R&D contests implicitly assumes that contestants submit their innovation regardless of its value …

This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research … suitable contests can induce such variety. The buyer-optimal contest is a bonus tournament, where suppliers can choose only …