Winner’s Optimal Reimbursement in Contest

This paper explores a designer-optimal reimbursement scheme in all-pay auctions with winner’s reimbursement. Assuming the reimbursement is a linear function of the cost of effort, we obtain analytical solutions for the contestants’ symmetrical equilibrium effort and the contest organizer’s expected...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yong Liu, Shaozeng Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9083023