An extension rule assigns to each fractional tournament x (specifying, for every pair of social alternatives a and b … the fractional tournament to that subset) are incompatible with very weak properties implied by stochastic … tournament arising from a population of voters with preferences in such a domain has a unique admissible stochastically …

-pay auctions, we reject the predicted difference in tournament intensity. Moreover, the reason for the reduced fairness of …

prizes, and general contest technologies. A tournament is called horizontally ex-ante fair if symmetric contestants have the … same expected payoffs (odds) before the tournament starts. It is called perfectly fair if the winning probabilities in each … match depend only on the players’ characteristics but not on the position of the match in the course of the tournament. We …

prizes, and general contest technologies. A tournament is called horizontally ex-ante fair if symmetric contestants have the … same expected payoffs (odds) before the tournament starts. It is called perfectly fair if the winning probabilities in each … match depend only on the players' characteristics but not on the position of the match in the course of the tournament. We …

We propose a novel tournament design that incorporates the main properties of a round-robin tournament, a Swiss … tournament, and a race. Following an equilibrium analysis, we compare 36 tournament structures inherent in our model and several … well-known tournament models from the literature, on the basis of expected total equilibrium effort. We show that two of …