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The tug-of-war in the laboratory

Deck, Cary A.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: European journal of political economy 60 (2019), pp. 1-12

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The tug-of-war in the laboratory

Deck, Cary A.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2018

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Tug-of-war in the laboratory

Deck, Cary A.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2015

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Focused power : experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points

Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - 2013

Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...

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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2015

We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

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Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests : Theory and Experimental Results

Cason, Timothy N. - 2018

This study provides a unified framework to compare three canonical types of contests: winner-take-all contests won by the best performer, winner-take-all lotteries where probability of success is proportional to performance, and proportional-prize contests in which rewards are shared in...

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Behavior in All-Pay Auctions with Ties

Gelder, Alan - 2015

examine an extension of the canonical two-player all-pay auction in which a tie occurs unless one player's bid exceeds the … standard all-pay auction. We also find that decreasing the fraction of the prize players receive for tying may either increase …

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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests : theory and experimental evidence

Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2014

This paper investigates the implications of different prize structures on effort provision in dynamic (two-stage) elimination contests. Theoretical results show that, for risk-neutral participants, a structure with a single prize for the winner of the contest maximizes total effort, while a...

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Round-Robin tournaments in the lab : lottery contests vs. all-pay auctions

Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2025

We conduct a laboratory experiment to compare the fairness and intensity of round-robin tournaments with three symmetric players, a single prize, and two alternative match formats. Matches are either organized as lottery contests or all-pay auctions. Whereas we confirm the theoretical prediction...

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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...

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