Olszewski, Wojciech; Siegel, Ron - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 1, pp. 57-88
Many sales, sports, and research contests are put in place to maximize contestants’ performance. We investigate and provide a complete characterization of the prize structures that achieve this objective in settings with many contestants. The contestants may be ex-ante asymmetric in their...
