We study the design of a sequence of two contests between a pair of identical risk averse employees whose effort … first-period success reflects only transitory shocks and not ability, it is efficient to structure the contests so these …

simultaneous R&D contests for complementary patents and how they interact with patent portfolios that firms may have acquired … already. We also consider how this interaction and the intensity of the contests depends on the type of patent trade regimes …

Perfectly discriminating contests (or all pay auction) are widely used as a model of situations where individuals … devote resources to win some prize. In reality such contests are often preceded by investments of the contestants into their …

-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine "spillover" effects … important economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where …, tournaments, R&D races, models of ligitation, and a host of other contests. …