A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides...

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Volume:	18
Main Author:	Dechenaux, Emmanuel Kovenock, Dan Sheremeta, Roman M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	New York Springer US 01.12.2015 SPRINGER Springer
published in:	Experimental Economics Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 609 - 669
Data of publication:	20151200
ISSN:	1386-4157 1573-6938
EISSN:	1573-6938
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Economics Behavioral/Experimental Economics All-pay auctions Contests Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods Microeconomics Tournaments Operation Research/Decision Theory Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences Experiments Business & Economics Social Sciences Experimental economics Analysis Social ecology United States AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION WEAKEST-LINK CONTESTS RISK-AVERSION Experiments MULTIPERSON TOURNAMENTS All-pay auctions STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR Contests COLONEL BLOTTO Tournaments OPTIMAL ALLOCATION GENDER-DIFFERENCES RENT-SEEKING INTERGROUP COMPETITION
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2015 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS