Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries,
competition between political parties, team‐incentives within firms, and rent‐seeking. In …

Competitive situations resembling contests are ubiquitous in modern economic landscape.
In a contest, economic agents expend costly effort to vie for limited prizes, and they are …

One explanation for the prevalence of self‐managed work teams is that they enable workers
with complementary skills to specialize in the tasks they do best, a benefit that may be …

We experimentally study a non-exclusive group contest in which contestants actively
participate in multiple groups simultaneously. We compare the results of this contest to those …

The organization of team contests can enhance productivity if teammates with
complementary skills are able to allocate the team's tasks efficiently, but can also suffer from …

Costly competitions between economic agents are modeled as contests. Researchers use
laboratory experiments to study contests and test comparative static predictions of contest …

We explore public randomization (Harris et al., 1995) in group contests and introduce group
public randomization equilibria (GPRE). We consider group all-pay auctions with weakest …

We design an experiment to examine the role of chat communication and side payments in
facilitating collusion and fostering productive efficiency in repeated Bertrand duopoly …

We investigate behavior in two-player sequential-move contests with complete and
incomplete information about the value of the prize. First, we describe a Bayesian …

Contests are ubiquitous in daily life. Examples range from job applications, political
elections, sports competitions to resource contentions. Because of their prevalence, it is …