Heterogeneity, leveling the playing field, and affirmative action in contests

SM Chowdhury, P Esteve‐González… - Southern Economic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The heterogeneous abilities of players in various competitive contexts often lead to
undesirable outcomes such as low effort provision, a lack of diversity, and inequality. A …

Optimal prize-rationing strategy in all-pay contests with incomplete information

X Liu, J Lu - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
A contest organizer (eg, a government regulatory agency) is endowed with the capacity to
provide unlimited homogeneous prizes (eg, medals) that he can use to incentivize …

Dynamic pricing of peak production

H Peura, DW Bunn - Operations Research, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
Peak producers of nonstorable products, such as electricity, provide crucial flexible
operating capacity to respond to infrequent and transient high demand periods. Faced with …

How to measure competition? The role of price dispersion in B2B supply markets

P Scheffler, H Schiele, P Horn - International journal of …, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
Since the formation of close relationships with suppliers requires a considerable amount of
resources, the capacities for such relationships are limited. Thus, recently, research points …

[图书][B] Global sourcing: performance and competition: How to benefit from an international scope

P Scheffler - 2015 - books.google.com
In today's times, more and more companies pursue global sourcing strategies in some form
and to some extent. The most prominent reason for the increased interest in global sourcing …

A Bertrand–Edgeworth oligopoly with a public firm

Z Rácz, A Tasnádi - Journal of Economics, 2016 - Springer
We determine conditions under which a pure-strategy equilibrium of a mixed Bertrand–
Edgeworth oligopoly exists. In addition, we determine its pure-strategy equilibrium whenever …

Coexistence of small and dominant firms in bertrand competition: judo economics in the lab

D Cracau, A Sadrieh - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics …, 2016 - JSTOR
Judo economics describes an entry strategy for small firms. Using a capacity limitation, they
force dominant market incumbents to accommodate. We study the power of judo economics …

Price dispersion in electricity auctions: The strategic foundation and implication to market design

S Hu, R Kapuscinski, WS Lovejoy - Available at SSRN 1660609, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
We model uniform and discriminatory auctions in wholesale electricity markets. High
variability of electricity prices is often explained by exogenous economic factors. We …

An experimental study of mixed strategy equilibria in simultaneous price-quantity games

D Cracau, B Franz - Working Paper Series, 2012 - journals.ub.ovgu.de
We study oligopoly games with firms competing in prices and quantities at the same time.
We systematically compare our experimental results to the theoretical predictions using the …

[PDF][PDF] Munich Papers in Political Economy

SM Chowdhury, P Esteve-González, A Mukherjee - 2020 - cms.mgt.tum.de
The heterogeneous abilities of the players in various competitive contexts often lead to
undesirable outcomes such as low effort provision, lack of diversity, and inequality. A range …