Barbieri, Stefano; Serena, Marco - In: Social Choice and Welfare 62 (2023) 1, pp. 117-152
We study a contest design problem in which a designer chooses how many Tullock contests to have, how much to award to each contest, and which contestants (of high or low type) should be assigned to which contest. Our main result is that a single grand contest maximizes total effort. We consider...
