This paper considers a situation in which participants with heterogeneous ability types are grouped into different competitions for performance ranking. In a contest, there may be performance spillovers, because of which a participant can benefit from others' performance. A planner can allocate...

This paper studies complete-information, all-pay contests with asymmetric players competing for heterogeneous prizes. In these contests, each player chooses a performance level or "score". The first prize is awarded to the player with the highest score, the second -- less valuable -- prize to...

This paper generalizes the results of Siegel (2009, 2010) to accommodate performance spillovers. More precisely, we show that, if for any player, spillover from other players' performance is independent of his own performance, and if the spillover enters any player's payoff in an additively...

This paper studies a complete-information bargaining game with one buyer and multiple sellers of different "sizes" or bargaining strengths. The bargaining order is determined by the buyer. If the buyer can commit to a bargaining order, there is a unique subgame perfect equilibrium outcome where...