Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - 2012
We allow a contest organizer to bias a contest in a discriminatory way; i.e., she can favor specific contestants by … designing the contest rule in order to maximize total equilibrium effort (resp. revenue). The two predominant contest regimes … the all-pay auction revenue dominates the lottery contest for all levels of heterogeneity among contestants. The incentive …