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Direct and structural discrimination in contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2013

This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants ́prize...

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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef - 2012

efforts. Optimal twofold discrimination is often superior to any single mode of discrimination under any lottery. Surprisingly …, in the general N-player contest game, under the prototypical simple lottery, it can yield the maximal possible efforts …

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Equity and Effectiveness of Optimal Taxation in Contests Under an All-Pay Auction

Mealem, Yosef - 2012

effective; it yields total contestants' efforts that are larger than those obtained under almost any Tullock-type lottery …

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Equity and effectiveness of optimal taxation in contests under an all-pay auction

Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

effective; it yields total contestants' efforts that are larger than those obtained under almost any Tullock-type lottery … ; lottery …

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Differential prize taxation and structural discrimination in contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

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On the relative sequencing of internal and external rent-seeking contests

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Gupta, Dhritiman - 2024

We consider rent-seeking contests between and within two equal-sized groups. Each group adopts one of three sequences: first internal then external contest, first external then internal contest, and simultaneous internal and external contests. Groups cannot unilaterally postpone a contest...

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The Impacts of the Social Infrastructure on the Sudanese Civil Society Institutions : Case Study of Khartoum

Mohamed, Issam A.W; Osman, Mohamed A. - 2011

Contemporary Sudanese society endures many hardships which are manifested in economic retraction, inflation, recession and stagflation. However, social conflicts are also manifested in simple man's daily complaints to open rebellions. Most academicians agree on one point, that the society...

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Coup De Etat, Fraud, Counterfeited Elections and the Art of Tearing a Nation

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

The current political situation in Sudan has deteriorated with the secession of its Southern part, the Darfur dilemma and the growing public feelings of deprivation, political disparities, elitism that possess the whole country. However, evidence proves that the situation is an accumulation of...

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Referendum, Secession and Intermixed Tribal Structure in Western-Southern Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

Tribal intermixtures and interactions between groups of Southern Kordofan and Northern Bahr Al Gazal provinces are wide and old. However, the previous coexistence that dominated one country provinces was torn down by calls for secession by the southern region of Sudan. The province of Abyei...

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Lobbying, Inside and Out : How Special Interest Groups Influence Policy Choices

Wolton, Stephane - 2020

Special interest groups (SIGs) have multiple channels of influence: contributing to decision-makers or providing them with information (henceforth, inside lobbying) and grassroots mobilizations or advertising their position to voters (henceforth, outside lobbying). How do these channels...

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