This thesis studies questions of selection and heterogeneity in contests. A wide array of applications use contest structures, including promotion tournaments, military conflict, and sports contests. Since working with empirical data on real-world conflicts poses a number of challenges in terms of unobservable characteristics, idiosyncrasies of the given conflict and identification strategy, the empirical results in this thesis have been derived using data from theory-guided laboratory experiments. All these experiments have in common that they employ the lottery contest framework by Tullock (1980). We address three main puzzles: alliance formation, outbreak of violent conflict and overexpenditure in conflict. Chapter 2 analyzes group forma...
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We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group mem...
This thesis consists of three essays that aim to improve our understanding of individual behavior in...
This thesis consists of three chapters devoted to the study of the economics of contests. Each chapt...
We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980)...
We show how symmetric equilibria emerge in general two-player contests in which skill and effort ar...
Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries, competition between ...
We study tournaments with many ex-ante asymmetric contestants, whose valuations for the prize are in...
We study tournaments with many ex-ante asymmetric contestants, whose valuations for the prize are in...
We characterize the unique Markov perfect equilibrium of a tug-of-war without exogenous noise, in wh...
This thesis is concerned with the effects of asymmetries in ability and social preferences in contes...
We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental three-player contests. We ...
This paper introduces a notion of partitioned correlated equilibrium that extends Aumann's correlate...
In the first chapter, I analyze a model of rent-seeking contest where groups compete non-cooperative...
We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous mov...
Supplementary Information Files for Not all group members are created equal: heterogeneous abilities...
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group mem...
This thesis consists of three essays that aim to improve our understanding of individual behavior in...
This thesis consists of three chapters devoted to the study of the economics of contests. Each chapt...
We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980)...
We show how symmetric equilibria emerge in general two-player contests in which skill and effort ar...
Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries, competition between ...
We study tournaments with many ex-ante asymmetric contestants, whose valuations for the prize are in...
We study tournaments with many ex-ante asymmetric contestants, whose valuations for the prize are in...
We characterize the unique Markov perfect equilibrium of a tug-of-war without exogenous noise, in wh...
This thesis is concerned with the effects of asymmetries in ability and social preferences in contes...
We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental three-player contests. We ...
This paper introduces a notion of partitioned correlated equilibrium that extends Aumann's correlate...
In the first chapter, I analyze a model of rent-seeking contest where groups compete non-cooperative...
We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous mov...
Supplementary Information Files for Not all group members are created equal: heterogeneous abilities...
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group mem...
This thesis consists of three essays that aim to improve our understanding of individual behavior in...