Skaperdas (1996) characterized the contest success function (CSF), which stipulates the winning probabilities of the contestants, using respectively the scale invariance and translation invariance axioms. This paper first characterizes the entire family of CSFs that fulfils a convex mixture of...

This paper proposes a four-parameter statistical model of the personalized distribution of income using the "income share elasticity" approach suggested by Esteban (1986). Our proposed model includes the Singh-Maddala (1976) and Dagum (1977) distributions as special cases. The generalized beta...