Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2011
We study an all-pay contest with multiple identical prizes ("lifeboat seats"). Prizes are partitioned into subsets of prizes ("lifeboats"). Players play a two-stage game. First, each player chooses an element of the partition ("a lifeboat"). Then each player competes for a prize in the subset...