study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …

incorporating behavioral dimensions into the rent-seeking contest, such as (1) the utility of winning, (2) relative payoff …

Despite the wide occurrence of ties in a variety of contest settings, the strategic interaction that arises when ties …

contest experiments: (i) overbidding relative to the standard Nash equilibrium prediction and (ii) heterogeneous behavior of … ex-ante symmetric contestants. Based on the sample of contest experiments that we review, the median overbidding rate is …

This study reports an experiment that examines whether groups can better comply with theoretical predictions than … individuals in contests. Our experiment replicates previous findings that individual players significantly overbid relative to … individual players. The new findings of our experiment are that groups make 25% lower bids, their bids have lower variance, and …

A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize … theory. This dissertation uses experimental methods to provide empirical investigation of different aspects of contest theory … simultaneous lottery contests: a grand contest, two multiple prize settings (equal and unequal prizes), and a contest which …

potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation … contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The results indicate that in aggregate the single-prize contest generates … lower expenditures than either the proportional-prize or the multi-prize contest. Interestingly, while the aggregate results …

This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …