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Sorting Contests and Contestants
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022We study the sorting of contestants across Tullock contests, and the allocation of a prize budget across these contests. Our benchmark result is that total effort is maximized by a unique grand contest and contestant exclusions decrease total effort. We consider two extensions of our benchmark result.
Barbieri, S., Serena, M.
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Contested norms, contested territory
2022The South China Sea dispute is one of the most complex and multi-layered conflicts globally. For one, it includes the territorial disputes between China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Taiwan about which maritime features belong to which state. However, the conflict has another, much more global dimension.
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Public Choice, 2008 We examine the effects of providing more accurate information to a political decision-maker lobbied by competing interests. We investigate how this bias in the direction of the correct decision affects efficiency, measured (inversely) by both the probability of taking an incorrect decision, and the amount of social waste associated to lobbying ...
Matthias Dahm, Nicolás Porteiro
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Games and Economic Behavior, 2009 We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically
Konrad, Kai A., Kovenock, Dan
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European Journal of Political Economy, 2016
In noisy contests where only the winner's entry will eventually be implemented, the suitable objective is to maximize the expected quality of the entry of the winner. We compare the optimal set of rules in contests under such an objective to the one under maximization of the sum of contestants’ efforts, which is commonly assumed in the literature, and ...
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In noisy contests where only the winner's entry will eventually be implemented, the suitable objective is to maximize the expected quality of the entry of the winner. We compare the optimal set of rules in contests under such an objective to the one under maximization of the sum of contestants’ efforts, which is commonly assumed in the literature, and ...
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2017
This chapter examines the “contested terrain” associated with the founding of Chicago’s Douglass National Bank in 1921. Anthony Overton, one of history’s most prominent African American entrepreneurs, is widely regarded as the founder of the second national bank organized by African Americans. Yet, the evidence indicates that this distinction should go
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This chapter examines the “contested terrain” associated with the founding of Chicago’s Douglass National Bank in 1921. Anthony Overton, one of history’s most prominent African American entrepreneurs, is widely regarded as the founder of the second national bank organized by African Americans. Yet, the evidence indicates that this distinction should go
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2019
This chapter reveals that even secular-minded thinkers like Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas were or are now sensitive to such claims discussed in the previous chapter. Weber understood secularization as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but he was aware that modernization came at a price and a steep one.
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This chapter reveals that even secular-minded thinkers like Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas were or are now sensitive to such claims discussed in the previous chapter. Weber understood secularization as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but he was aware that modernization came at a price and a steep one.
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Contested rationalities, contested organizations
Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2004Postmodernist contestations of modernist economic and organizational rationalities have made immense contributions to organizational analysis. A current direction in critical theory now, working through the postmodernist critique, seeks new conceptions of organizations and sources for the revitalization of organizational life.
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International rankings and the contest for university hegemony
Governing by Numbers, 2015In just a decade, the international university rankings have become dominant measures of institutional performance for policy-makers worldwide. Bolstered by the façade of scientific neutrality, these classification systems have reinforced the hegemonic ...
I. Ordorika, Marion Lloyd
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Contested Monuments, Contested Spaces, and Contested Narratives
This chapter first reflects upon the preceding chapters, reviewing the questions that have guided their explorations of material commemoration. Among these questions is an examination of what monuments and memorials can do and what they cannot do. This reflection offers insight into the scope of an archaeology of memorialization.openaire +1 more source