We study the design of information disclosure in a dynamic multi-agent research contest, where each agent privately searches for innovations and submits his best to compete for a winner-takes-all prize. We find that although submission is a onetime event for each agent, different disclosure...

The contest entails one prize and n potential bidders. Each bidder receives a signal about the value of the prize and has a signal-dependent probability of participation. All bidders bear a cost of bidding that is an increasing function of their bids. It is shown that the contest organizer...

This paper investigates how externalities from downstream competition shape sorting in upstream labor markets. We model it as a two-stage game: A first stage of simultaneous 1-to-1 matching between firms and managers and a second stage of Cournot competition among matched pairs. If firm...