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Payoff Shares in Two-Player Contests
Games, 2016 In imperfectly discriminating contests with symmetric valuations, equilibrium payoffs are positive shares of the value of the prize. In contrast to a bargaining situation, players’ shares sum to less than one because a residual share of the value is lost
Samuel Häfner, Georg Nöldeke
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Subordinate Fish Mediate Aggressiveness Using Recent Contest Information
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Memorizing dominance relationships can help animals avoid unwinnable subsequent contests. However, when competitive ability changes over time—for example, as a function of condition—it may be adaptive to “forget” these dominance relationships and for ...
Takashi Hotta +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 The main aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between how contests end (scores or penalties), the temporal units and the competition rounds regarding when the contest end in the 2018, 2019 and 2021 Judo World Championships.
Xurxo Dopico-Calvo +7 more
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Malevolent Governance, Intra-Group Conflict and the Paradox of the Plenty: An Experiment
Games, 2015 Using a laboratory experiment, we behaviourally study the impact of a sudden increase in the common-pool size on within-group conflict, i.e., the paradox of the plenty. We also consider the potential role of governance in avoiding this paradox.
Klarizze Anne Puzon, Marc Willinger
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Le travail corporel dans le contexte des élections de Miss
Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 2020 The article attempts to analyse the displacements, in the experience of women having taken part in Miss contests, from body work carried out within the context of local level contests towards forms of aesthetic labour. Under what conditions can body work
Camille Couvry
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Understanding Fear of Opportunism in Global Prize-Based Science Contests: Evidence for Gender and Age Differences. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Global prize-based science contests have great potential for tapping into diverse knowledge on a global scale and overcoming important scientific challenges.
Oguz Ali Acar, Jan van den Ende
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Strategically Equivalent Contests [PDF]
, 2014 Using a two-player Tullock-type contest, we show that intuitively and structurally different contests can be strategically equivalent. Strategically equivalent contests generate the same best response functions and, as a result, the same equilibrium ...
A Dasgupta +43 more
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Conceptualising Contestability [PDF]
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021 As the use of algorithmic systems in high-stakes decision-making increases, the ability to contest algorithmic decisions is being recognised as an important safeguard for individuals. Yet, there is little guidance on what 'contestability'--the ability to contest decisions--in relation to algorithmic decision-making requires.
Lyons, Henrietta +2 more
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Does Success Breed Success? a Quasi-Experiment on Strategic Momentum in Dynamic Contests
Economic Journal, 2019 We study how agents adapt their behaviour to variations of incentives in dynamic contests. We investigate a real dynamic contest with large stakes: professional tennis matches.
Romain Gauriot, Lionel Page
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Does Blue Uniform Color Enhance Winning Probability in Judo Contests?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The color of an athlete's uniform may have an effect on psychological functioning and consequently bias the chances of winning contests in sport competition.
Peter D. Dijkstra +2 more
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