A contest is a game where several players compete for winning prizes by expending costly efforts. We assume that the … outcome of a contest is an ordered partition of the set of players (a ranking) and a contest success function assigns a … probability to each possible outcome as a function of players’ efforts. We define a contest success function for contests whose …

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifies the winning probabilities of …

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifies the winning probabilities of …

with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending …

with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending …

with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending …

that characterizes whether and when the aggregate equilibrium payoff of contestants is higher in the single-stage contest …, and when the single-stage contest is more likely to award the prize to the contestant who values it most highly. The …

the budget limits of all players who are within the same alliance, and then decide independently about their own contest …

, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest against …

We investigate a multi-period contest model in which a contestant.s present success gives an advantage over a rival in …