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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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Review of Economic Design, 2020
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Minchuk, Yizhaq, Sela, Aner
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Minchuk, Yizhaq, Sela, Aner
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Economic Inquiry, 1988
Firms frequently use contests to compensate their employees: an employee's pay depends on the ranking of his output compared to that of others, rather than on the absolute level of his output. This paper analyzes the design of a contest which maximizes the contestants' expected aggregate output, and describes two settings which yield opposite results ...
AMIHAI GLAZER, REFAEL HASSIN
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Firms frequently use contests to compensate their employees: an employee's pay depends on the ranking of his output compared to that of others, rather than on the absolute level of his output. This paper analyzes the design of a contest which maximizes the contestants' expected aggregate output, and describes two settings which yield opposite results ...
AMIHAI GLAZER, REFAEL HASSIN
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Management Science, 1995
The procurement of product development and production services brings special strategic considerations to the buyer-seller relationship in industrial and institutional markets. Multiple sourcing, in particular dual sourcing, is a likely way of dealing with the increased risks faced by buyers. However, there is lack of dual sourcing models that analyze
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The procurement of product development and production services brings special strategic considerations to the buyer-seller relationship in industrial and institutional markets. Multiple sourcing, in particular dual sourcing, is a likely way of dealing with the increased risks faced by buyers. However, there is lack of dual sourcing models that analyze
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Contesting Identities, Contesting Nation
Policy Futures in Education, 2009The globalization process disturbs a rather deep-seated intuition that culture has a special relationship to geographical place. (Tomlinson, 2007, p. 151) Contributors to this Special Issue identify the problematic status of post-colonial identities within cultural studies scholarship as a point of departure.
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Contest with pre-contest investment
Economics Letters, 2009zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Fu, Q., Lu, J.
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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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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
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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2018
Chapter 2 argues that the Dominican Republic’s separation from Haitian rule in 1844 reflected competing and conflicting notions about nationhood, belonging, and the legacies of Haitian rule over the island of Hispaniola.
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Chapter 2 argues that the Dominican Republic’s separation from Haitian rule in 1844 reflected competing and conflicting notions about nationhood, belonging, and the legacies of Haitian rule over the island of Hispaniola.
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