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Contests with Supporters
Goel, Bharat - 2019
In many real-world contests (political elections / lobbying for public projects), contestants try to engage supporters (unemployed youth / local residents) to fight for them. Such contests have the following features: a significant part of a contestant's supporter compensation is contingent upon...
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The n-player Hirshleifer contest
Ewerhart, Christian; Sun, Guang-Zhen - 2020
in cut-throat competition, while any others become ultimately inactive. Of some conceptual interest is the observation …
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A New Approach to Contest Models
Cavalli, Fausto - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to propose a symmetric two player general contest model in order to study the relationship between equilibria and crucial structural parameters of the model. In particular, given a general specification of the players' set of possible entries, of the agents' utility...
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The n-player Hirshleifer contest
Ewerhart, Christian; Sun, Guang-Zhen - 2022 - Revised version, October 2022
While the game-theoretic analysis of conflict is often based upon the assumption of multiplicative noise, additive …
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Sabotage in Contests : A Survey
Chowdhury, Subhasish M. - 2013
A contest is a situation in which individuals expend resources in order to win valuable prize(s). 'Sabotage' is a deliberate, and often costly and illegal, act of damaging a rival's likelihood of winning the contest. It is done by exerting resources to negatively influence the effectiveness of a...
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the … framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by … to do what is good for the group and contribute to the conflict. On the other hand, if people perceive to be personally …
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Electoral competition as a determinant of fiscal decentralization
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2011
, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease … decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …
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A Theory of Complementarity between Rent Seeking and Production
Teng, Jimmy - 2013
This paper uses a formal model to analyze the effects of rent seeking contest on production when the contestants are both rent seekers and producers and production output is an input of rent seeking effort. Great economies of scale in rent seeking and an even distribution of rent seeking...
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Rent Seeking Technology and Long Term Sustainability of Pluralistic Contest
Teng, Jimmy - 2012
affects the long term sustainability of pluralistic competition where there is more than one contestant to resources. If there … is over dissipation of rent, pluralistic competition is unsustainable. The paper uses the ratio form of Tullock … either case, pluralistic competition is not sustainable in the long run. It then applies the insights to understand …
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