Similar Search Results

Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489403

Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473887

Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473683

Lobbying of firms by voters

Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2009

A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378822

Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467392

Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups and free riding

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2009

We consider a two group contest over a group specific public good where each member of a group has a different benefit from the good. Our model can be interpreted in two ways: Each of the players has a non-linear investment cost in the contest, or alternatively, the returns to effort are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817303

Coopetition in Group Contest

Kiss, Hubert Janos - 2019

There are situations in which competitors ally to pursue a common objective. This simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition is called coopetition and we study it theoretically and experimentally in a group contest setup. More concretely, we analyze a group contest with a new sharing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871693

Exclusivity of Groups in Contests

Send, Jonas - 2021

I analyse a group contest in which groups decide over two dimensions of membership-exclusivity: whether a member is allowed to join the group at all, and whether this member is allowed to join another group as well. If the prize is mostly private, group leaders do not oﬀer membership in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323852

Contests within and between groups

Bhattacharya, Puja; Rampal, Jeevant - 2019

This paper examines behavior (the oretically and experimentally) in a two-stage group contest where the fi rst stage comprises of intra - group contests, followed by an inter-group contest in the second stage. Rewards accrue only to the members of the winning group in the inter-group contest,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014361

The Effect of the Number of Size of Interest Groups on Social Rent Dissipation

Sun, Guang-Zhen; Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2008

groups. The first model analyzes the case in which individuals in each group ignore the effect of the lobbying effect on the … model examine the case wherein the individual in each group takes account of the effect of lobbying activities on the Big …-size" effect in lobbying; when the group number is big, the Big Pie effect is insignificant and therefore is dominated by the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170948