Search Results - subject:"Optimal contest"

Optimal Contest Design when the Designer's Payoff Depends on Competitive Balance

Runkel, Marco - 2003

This paper investigates optimal contest design when the designer's payoff is increasing in competitive balance between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315882

Optimal Contest Design when the Designer’s Payoff Depends on Competitive Balance

Runkel, Marco - CESifo - 2003

This paper investigates optimal contest design when the designer’s payoff is increasing in competitive balance between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181226

Optimal contest design when the designer s payoff depends on competitive balance

Runkel, Marco - 2003

This paper investigates optimal contest design when the designer s payoff is increasing in competitive balance between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509371

Contests where there is variation in the marginal productivity of effort

Singh, Nirvikar; Wittman, Donald - In: Economic Theory 18 (2001) 3, pp. 711-744

We provide a characterization of participants' behavior in a contest or tournament where the marginal productivity of effort varies across contestants and individual productivity is private information. We then consider the optimal design of such a contest. <p>We first analyze contestant behavior...</p>

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