Multiple prizes in research tournaments

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  • Heidrun Hoppe-Wewetzer
  • Andreas Wagener
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)118-120
Seitenumfang3
FachzeitschriftEconomics letters
Jahrgang175
Frühes Online-Datum24 Dez. 2018
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Feb. 2019

Abstract

A Fullerton–McAfee research tournament with multiple prizes is strategically equivalent to a sequential multi-prize Tullock contest. Contest designers, aiming to maximize total research efforts, should therefore allocate a given prize sum to a single prize rather than to several ones.

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Multiple prizes in research tournaments. / Hoppe-Wewetzer, Heidrun; Wagener, Andreas.
in: Economics letters, Jahrgang 175, 02.2019, S. 118-120.

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Hoppe-Wewetzer H, Wagener A. Multiple prizes in research tournaments. Economics letters. 2019 Feb;175:118-120. Epub 2018 Dez 24. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.12.024
Hoppe-Wewetzer, Heidrun ; Wagener, Andreas. / Multiple prizes in research tournaments. in: Economics letters. 2019 ; Jahrgang 175. S. 118-120.
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