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Kiss, Hubert Janos - 2019

There are situations in which competitors ally to pursue a common objective. This simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition is called coopetition and we study it theoretically and experimentally in a group contest setup. More concretely, we analyze a group contest with a new sharing...

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Stochastic asymmetric Blotto games : an experimental study

Duffy, John; Matros, Alexander - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 139 (2017), pp. 88-105

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Buying supermajorities in the lab

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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Private-Information Group Contests

Barbieri, Stefano; Malueg, David A. - 2015

We model competing groups when players' values for winning are private information, each group's performance equals the best effort ("best shot") of its members, and the group with the best performance wins the contest. At the symmetric equilibrium of symmetric contests, increasing the number of...

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Exclusivity of Groups in Contests

Send, Jonas - 2021

I analyse a group contest in which groups decide over two dimensions of membership-exclusivity: whether a member is allowed to join the group at all, and whether this member is allowed to join another group as well. If the prize is mostly private, group leaders do not oﬀer membership in...

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The politics of randomness

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - In: Social choice and welfare 27 (2006) 2, pp. 423-433

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Private-information group contests : best-shot competition

Barbieri, Stefano; Malueg, David A. - In: Games and economic behavior 98 (2016), pp. 219-234

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The Politics of Randomness

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2021

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

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Optimal accuracy of unbiased tullock contests with two heterogeneous players

Sahm, Marco - 2022

I characterize the optimal accuracy level r of an unbiased Tullock contest between two players with heterogeneous prize valuations. The designer maximizes the winning probability of the strong player or the winner’s expected valuation by choosing a contest with an all-pay auction equilibrium...

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Majoritarian contests with asymmetric battlefields : an experiment

Montero, María; Possajennikov, Alexandre; 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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