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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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Design elements of innovation contests supporting Open Innovation in SMEs - An action research study
Journal of Innovation Management, 2021 While innovation contests and intermediaries are widely used in large companies to source knowledge from the outside, it is not clear how contests could be utilized to break the barriers that SMEs face in pursuing Open Innovation.
NICOLA DOPPIO +2 more
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Competitive programming participation rates: an examination of trends in U.S. ICPC regional contests
Discover Education, 2023 A wide range of benefits have been posited from participation in competitive programming contests. However, an analysis of participation in north American regional contests in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) shows that ...
Jeremy J. Blum
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Continuois Time Contests [PDF]
, 2012 This paper introduces a contest model in which each player decides when to stop a privately observed Brownian motion with drift and incurs costs depending on his stopping time.
Seel, Christian, Strack, Philipp
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Breaking the code: Multi-level learning in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceOrganizations learn from market, political and societal responses to their actions. While in some cases both the actions and responses take place in an open manner, in many others, some aspects may be hidden from external observers.
Luis A. Nunes Amaral +2 more
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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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Optimal Crowdsourcing Contests [PDF]
, 2011 We study the design and approximation of optimal crowdsourcing contests. Crowdsourcing contests can be modeled as all-pay auctions because entrants must exert effort up-front to enter.
Chawla, Shuchi +2 more
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Genome Biology, 2013 We present the full story of Genome Biology's recent DNA60IFX contest, as told by the curators and winner of what turned out to be a memorable and hotly contested bioinformatics challenge.
Schatz, M., Taylor, J., Schelhorn, S.
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Police pay—contested and contestable [PDF]
Industrial Relations Journal, 2016 AbstractThis article provides an analysis of developments in the determination of police pay since 1919. It reveals the contested nature of public sector pay setting where the government of the day pursues short‐term economic goals rather than taking a long‐term approach to staffing issues in essential public services.
Mather, Kim, Seifert, Roger
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