Strategy and dynamics in contests

by Konrad, Kai Andreas

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Full title :Strategy and dynamics in contests / Kai A. Konrad

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009

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Description:xi, 218 s. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0199549591, 0199549605, 9780199549597, 9780199549603
oclc:ocn474621909
Dewey Decimal:330.01

Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. An Introduction to Contests; 1.1 A definition; 1.2 Examples; 1.3 The structure of the book; 2. Types of Contests; 2.1 The first-price all-pay auction; 2.2 Additive noise; 2.3 The Tullock contest; 2.4 Experimental evidence; 2.5 Evolutionary success; 2.6 Summary; 3. Timing and Participation; 3.1 Endogenous timing; 3.2 Voluntary participation; 3.3 Exclusion; 3.4 Delegation; 3.5 Summary; 4. Cost and prize structure; 4.1 Choice of cost; 4.2 The structure of prizes; 4.3 Endogenous prizes; 4.4 Summary; 5. Externalities; 5.1 State lotteries and financing public goods; 5.2 A loser's preference about who wins; 5.3 Personnel economics and sabotage; 5.4 Information externalities and campaigning; 5.5 Inter-group contests and free riding; 5.6 Conclusions; 6. Nested contests; 6.1 Exogenous sharing rules; 6.2 The choice of sharing rules; 6.3 Intra-group conflict; 6.4 A strategy of analysis of nested contests; 7. Alliances; 7.1 The alliance formation puzzle; 7.2 Solutions to the alliance formation puzzle; 7.3 Summary; 8. Dynamic battles; 8.1 The elimination tournament; 8.2 The race; 8.3 The tug-of-war; 8.4 Iterating incumbency fights; 8.5 Endogenous fighting; 8.6 S…