We examine how disclosure policy can be optimally designed to incentivize contestants when their participation is exogenously stochastic. In a generalized Tullock contest setting with two players who are asymmetric in both their values and entry probabilities, we fully characterize the necessary...

In many real-life contests, contestants do not know their own type (e.g., value or ability) prior to a competition; and contestants’ types, which are observed privately once entering the contest, are often correlated with each other. We study a two-stage contest in which two players with...