A contest is a game where contestants exert costly and irretrievable effort in order to obtain
one or more prizes with some probability. Many real-life situations comply with this general …

We examine a conflictual setting in which adversaries cannot contract on an enforcement
variable (arms) and where the future strategic positions of adversaries are very different …

We analyze the revenue-enhancing potential of favoring specific contestants in complete-
information all-pay auctions and lottery contests with several heterogeneous contestants …

Conflict parties are frequently involved in more than one conflict simultaneously. In this
paper the structure of local conflicts is modeled as a conflict network where rivals invest in …

While governments prefer to alter budgets to fit their ideological stances, the domestic and
international contexts can facilitate or constrain behavior. The Politics of Budgets …

In this paper, we present a contest success function (CSF), which is homogeneous of degree
zero and in which the probability of winning the prize depends on the relative difference of …

We take an evolutionary perspective to explore the implications of different relationships
between power and initiation of conflicts (ie, conflict initiation function) for the long-run …

This paper investigates the impact of violent civil conflicts during the process of
democratization on the institutional quality of the emerging democracies. We propose a …

We study the econometrics of an asymmetric Tullock contest model with incomplete
information. Identification results are established for parameters in the asymmetric contest …

This paper presents an axiomatic characterization of difference-form contests, that is,
contests where agents' probability of victory depends on the difference of their effective …