equilibrium concept, I apply evolutionary game theory in a sports contest model. If clubs follow evolutionarily stable strategies …

equilibrium concept, I apply evolutionary game theory in a sports contest model. If clubs follow evolutionarily stable strategies …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …

Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii …) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic contest models … depending on whether the first, second, or both wealth effects play a role: namely, a privilege contest, an ability contest, and …

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict. …