This paper considers all-pay contests in which the relationship between bids and allocation reflects a small amount of …, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and dynamic … contests. …

-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine spillover effects that … economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where individuals … games, and show how it can be used to directly solve for equilibrium behavior in auctions, pricing games, tournaments, R …

In imperfectly discriminating contests with symmetric valuations, equilibrium payoffs are positive shares of the value … value is lost due to rent dissipation. In this paper, we consider contests with two players and investigate the relationship …

simple asymmetric contest in which contestants differ in the effectiveness of their efforts? For two-player contests the …

This paper presents a strategic model of risk-taking behavior in contests. Formally, we analyze an n-player winner …