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Equilibrium and efficiency in the tug-of-war

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Daniel J. - 2006

which the player expending the greater resources wins. In equilibrium, contest effort concentrates on at most two adjacent … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …

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Contests with rank-order spillovers

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2009 - Revised: April 2009

This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine spillover effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision...

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Equilibrium and Efficiency in the Tug-of-War

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Daniel J. - 2021

which the player expending the greater resources wins. In equilibrium, contest effort concentrates on at most two adjacent … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single-stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …

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Behavior in All-Pay Auctions with Ties

Gelder, Alan - 2015

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

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A tug-of-war team contest

Häfner, Samuel - In: Games and economic behavior 104 (2017), pp. 372-391

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Success in contests

Levine, David K.; Mattozzi, Andrea - In: Economic theory 73 (2022) 2/3, pp. 595-624

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Contests with investment

Münster, Johannes - 2006

ability to fight in the contest. This paper studies a two stage game where in the first stage, players can invest to lower … their bid cost in a perfectly discriminating contest, which is played in the second stage. Different assumptions on the …

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Revenue maximizing head starts in contests

Franke, Jörg; Leininger, Wolfgang; Wasser, Cédric - 2014

biased all-pay auction or lottery contest. While head starts are more effective than multiplicative biases in all …

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Corporate lobbying : a review of the recent literature

Gregor, Martin - 2011

This survey covers recent literature on lobbying, with particular focus on corporate lobbying. Three main research traditions --- contestsfor policy rent, persuasion games, and multiple means models --- are analyzed in detail. Various strategic aspects of lobbying arepresented in the context of...

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Keep on fighting : the dynamics of head starts in all-pay auctions

Clark, Derek J.; Nilssen, Tore - In: Games and economic behavior 110 (2018), pp. 258-272

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