the budget limits of all players who are within the same alliance, and then decide independently about their own contest …

This paper studies a contest in which players with unobservable types may form an alliance in a pre-stage of the game … effort choice in the contest and there exist equilibria in which all types prefer to form an alliance. If the formation of an …

advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for two reasons: First, the incentive to free-ride is smaller in inter …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

In a contest players compete for winning a prize by effort and thereby increasing their probability of winning … systematically varies with the composition of different types of agents in a contest. Moreover, if the saboteur's identity is …

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest … candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent wins the contest in case of a tie. Theory predicts that in the presence of …