Perfectly discriminating contests (or all pay auction) are widely used as a model of situations where individuals … devote resources to win some prize. In reality such contests are often preceded by investments of the contestants into their … timing of investment are studied. With simultaneous investments, equilibria in which players play a pure strategy in the …

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 …

simultaneous R&D contests for complementary patents and how they interact with patent portfolios that firms may have acquired … already. We also consider how this interaction and the intensity of the contests depends on the type of patent trade regimes …