Search Results - subject:"Contest success function"

Klose, Bettina; Dan Kovenock J. - CESifo - 2012

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … success function, in determining the role of extremism and moderation in economic, political, and social environments. … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

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Contest with cooperative behavior: a note

Caruso, Raul - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1747-1754

The point of departure of this paper is that players in a contest may have mixed motives. On one hand, players have the interest of winning the contest and taking the prize. On the other hand, they could be better off taking part in a contest which implies some cooperative behaviour. This paper...

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Clausewitz on auctions

Häfner, Samuel - 2012

-of-war structure. Such framing provides a microfounded rationale for the use of the popular logit Tullock contest success function in …

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Friends and enemies : a model of signed network formation

Hiller, Timo - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; journal of the Econometric … 12 (2017) 3, pp. 1057-1087

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Information sharing among cyber hackers in successive attacks

Hausken, Kjell - In: International game theory review 19 (2017) 2, pp. 1-33

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Networks in conflict : theory and evidence from the Great War of Africa

König, Michael D.; Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; … - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 85 (2017) 4, pp. 1093-1132

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Biased contests for symmetric players

Drugov, Mikhail; Ryvkin, Dmitry - In: Games and economic behavior 103 (2017), pp. 116-144

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Alliance formation and coercion in networks

Hiller, Timo - 2011

This paper presents a game-theoretic model of network formation, which allows agents to enter bilateral alliances and to extract payoffs from enemies. Each pair of agents creates a surplus of one, which allies divide in equal parts. If agents are enemies, then the agent with more allies obtains...

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A simple microfoundation for the utilization of fragmentation indexes to measure the performance of a team

Maux, Benoît Le; Rocaboy, Yvon - Condorcet Center for Political Economy, Centre de … - 2011

We propose a simple non-cooperative game model where two fragmented teams compete to increase their performance. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of conflict. We show that depending on the value of a parameter in the model, the power of the competing teams may be expressed as a...

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