The heterogeneous abilities of players in various competitive contexts often lead to
undesirable outcomes such as low effort provision, a lack of diversity, and inequality. A …

This study provides a unified framework to compare three canonical types of contests:
winner-take-all contests won by the best performer, winner-take-all lotteries where …

We examine behavior of subjects in simultaneous and sequential multi‐battle contests,
where each individual battle is modeled as an all‐pay auction with complete information. In …

Tournaments are commonly used in the workplace to determine promotion, assign bonuses,
and motivate personal development. Tournament-based contracts can be very effective in …

Entry fees are widely observed in contests. We study the effect of a prize‐augmenting entry
fee on expected total effort in an all‐pay auction setting where the contestants' abilities are …

We present a complete information game-theoretic model for crowdsourcing contests. We
observe that in design contests, coding contests and other domains, separating low quality …

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to rely on a diverse pool of suppliers,
besides achieving cost effectiveness. Common wisdom, however, holds that these two aims …

Costly competitions between economic agents are modeled as contests. Researchers use
laboratory experiments to study contests and test comparative static predictions of contest …

We study a contest problem in which two players compete on a continuum of battlefields by
spending resources subject to some constraints on their strategies. Following Myerson …

Contest designers and managers who wish to maximize the overall revenue of a contest are
frequently concerned with a trade‐off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of …