The optimal allocation of prizes in two-stage contests

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2021.109850zbMath1467.91060OpenAlexW3152670930MaRDI QIDQ2036951

Aner Sela, Shahar Alshech

Publication date: 30 June 2021

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109850

zbMATH Keywords

best-of-two contestsTullock conteststwo-stage contests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) 2-person games (91A05) Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

Cites Work

• The optimal multi-stage contest
• Contest success functions: an extension
• The strategic equivalence of rent-seeking, innovation, and patent-race games.
• Contest success functions
• Contest architecture

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