Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey...

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey...

We use laboratory experiments to examine the effect of firm size asymmetry on the emergence of price leadership in a capacity constrained price-setting duopoly. With discounting, the unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the timing game we analyze predicts that the large firm is an endogenous...