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Fehrler, Sebastian; Schneider, Maik T. - 2019

Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the … literature on vote-buying is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose and Snyder (1996), which predicts that … also provide supporting evidence for most comparative statics predictions of the legislative lobbying model with respect to …

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Management impact in an experimental intergroup contest : conference paper

Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2013 - Preliminary draft

The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group members in intergroup contests. I find that members follow the nonbinding investment recommendations of their group manager in particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the...

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

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2020

Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …

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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - 2021

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...

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Majoritarian Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields : An Experiment

Montero, Maria; Possajennikov, Alex; Sefton, Martin; … - 2013

We investigate a version of the classic Colonel Blotto game in which individual battles may have different values. Two players allocate a fixed budget across battlefields and each battlefield is won by the player who allocates the most to that battlefield. The winner of the game is the player...

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Sorting and communication in weak-link group contests

Brookins, Philip; Lightle, John P.; Ryvkin, Dmitry - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 152 (2018), pp. 64-80

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Non-exclusive group contests : an experimental analysis

Song, Jian; Houser, Daniel - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 87 (2021), pp. 1-17

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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests : an experimental analysis ; conference paper

Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of different prize structures on the effort choices of participants in two-stage elimination contests. A format with a single prize is shown to maximize total effort over both stages, but induces low effort in stage 1 and high effort in stage 2. By contrast, a...

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Institutional endogeneity and third-party punishment in social dilemmas

Marcin, Isabel; Robalo, Pedro; Tausch, Franziska - 2016

This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in social dilemmas. We allow individuals to vote on the introduction of third-party-administered sanctions, and compare situations in which the adoption of this institution is...

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