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Performance‐maximizing large contests

, 2020
Many sales, sports, and research contests are put in place to maximize contestants’ performance. We investigate and provide a complete characterization of the prize structures that achieve this objective in settings with many contestants. The contestants
W. Olszewski, Ron Siegel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Effect of Competition on Risk Taking in Contests

Games, 2018
We investigate, theoretically and experimentally, the effect of competition on risk taking in a contest in which players only decide on the level of risk they wish to take.
Lorenzo Spadoni, Jan Potters
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Global Innovation Contests

Games, 2023
The primary objective of this paper is to develop a two-country, dynamic, general equilibrium model with innovation contests to formally analyze the impact of globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth.
Elias Dinopoulos, Constantinos Syropoulos, Theofanis Tsoulouhas   +2 more
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Turning Up the Heat: The Discouraging Effect of Competition in Contests

Journal of Political Economy, 2019
We study contests in which contestants are homogeneous and have convex effort costs. Increasing contest competitiveness, by making prizes more unequal, scaling up the competition, or adding new contestants, always discourages effort.
Dawei Fang, T. Noe, P. Strack
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cultural Transmission and Extortion

Games, 2018
This paper explores the role of cultural transmission in extortion. Extortion is modeled as an asymmetric contest where individuals from one group attempt to take from individuals in another group. Using a model of cultural transmission, this paper finds
Garret Ridinger
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Primary school pupils cognitive abilities in informatics

Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, 2014
In Europe intensively are searching for opportunities to promote informatics as a fundamental subject teaching of elementary schools, beginning from primary classes. Looking for ways how to do it. Informatics and information technology contest’s “Beaver”
Valentina Dagienė, Simona Feiferytė, Elena Sutkutė   +2 more
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Optimal Sequential Contests [PDF]

Theoretical Economics, 2018
I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, including rent seeking, R&D, oligopoly, public goods provision, and tragedy of the commons. I show
Toomas Hinnosaar
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beer evaluation methods for competitions in the Czech Republic.

Kvasný průmysl, 2001
The article brings a description of the most frequent systems in beer contest organizing and methods of result evaluation in the Czech Republic. Each of the six described models is complemented by a brief commentary on advantages and drawbacks.
F. FRANTÍK, P. ČEJKA
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Longitudinal Study of a State 4-H Fashion Revue

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2015
The 4-H fashion revue contest gives young people the opportunity to create their own garment and present it in front of judges and an audience. To come to the conclusions reported here, the participant entry forms, participant evaluations, and judges ...
Kendra Taylor, Jan Scholl , Sandra P. Hall   +2 more
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Archery and target-shooting in pre-Islamic Java; What can be known?

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
In Java today, archery survives as a traditional discipline called jemparingan. Javanese archery involves targeting a pendulum-like target from a shooting distance of 35 to 50 metres.
Jiří Jákl
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