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This chapter lays the groundwork for a realist analysis of the disappearance or ‘death’ of social forms, which is particularly relevant in societies experiencing intensified social transformation. Whilst the notion of morphogenesis can account both for the acceleration of change and for the...
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We conduct a contest experiment where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an …
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design of the "Contest for Attention." Among other results, awarding attention to the highest contributors generally …
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players to either overbid a standing bid or to abstain from bidding altogether. Many common forms of contest are elastic. In … any equilibrium of an elastic contest, there is complete rent dissipation for all but at most one player. This result is … used to show that in any sufficiently decisive anonymous standard contest, any equilibrium is an all-pay auction …
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I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, including rent seeking, R&D, oligopoly, public goods provision, and tragedy of the commons. I show that information about other players'...
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