contestants. Focusing on the two most widely studied types of contest success functions (deterministic all-pay-auctions and logit … CSFs), we show that an all-pay auction is always the preferred CSF from the point of view of the contest designer. This … result provides a new political-economic micro foundation to some of the most commonly used models in the contest literature …

contest designer. If the contest can be unfair (structural discrimination is allowed), then the designer's payoff under the …

receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor … recipient countries look at aid availability through this contest as part of the competing objectives they face - some good …, some not good. The donor country prefers a contest under which the aid will only go to one country while the leaders of the …

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and … review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …

survey and experimental data on a typical recruitment population and then inviting them to participate in a lab experiment …