which the player expending the greater resources wins. In equilibrium, contest effort concentrates on at most two adjacent … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single-stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …

I analyse a group contest in which groups decide over two dimensions of membership-exclusivity: whether a member is … group all lead to the emergence of equilibria with endogenous non-exclusive membership. A contest designer interested in …

eliminate the discouragement effect, leaving players equally likely to win each match and the overall contest. We contrast our …We consider a best-of-three Tullock contest between two ex-ante identical players. An effort-maximizing designer … unequally likely to win each match and the overall contest. This result holds in Tullock contests and all-pay auctions, as well …

In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of … winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called "logitʺ contest … contest administrator is a rational decision maker whose optimal choice is deterministic. However, from the point of view of …

such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status …

We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups … contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The contest yields the per-period relative influence over institutions, which … partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …

We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium … the distribution costs are drawn from and on the exact specification of the contest success function. …