where no contestant would wish to change his choice of contest, results in the allocation of players to contests that … maximizes aggregate equilibrium effort. For a class of oligopoly models that are equivalent to contests, this implies output …

. This paper analyses the investment incentives of such agents and the role of incumbency advantages in the contest …. Depending on the advantages, an increase in the productivity of the investment can decrease or increase the amount of investment …. The results are applied to autocrats' investment behavior and job specific investment in organizations. …

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and … payoffs for both nondiscriminatory and discriminatory (where the reward is contestant-dependent) contests. We derive …

We analyze group contests for public goods by applying the solution concept of an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS …

quantity-equivalent output to obtain total output in the quantity contest. This latter feature implies that the two contests … are interlinked. Examples abound. There are contests in which there is a prize for the number (quantity) of publications …

the total number of citations is the same in both contests. In some cases, the total citations contest yields the same …