… is contests among workers where the chances of obtaining a promotion depend on the
margin by which a worker’s performance is above their colleagues’. The difference-form contest …

… We show that difference-form contests success functions can be scale invariant and …
contests. These axioms are rather natural and should apply to the class of difference-form contests …

… We examine players' equilibrium effort levels in a contest with difference-form contest
success functions in which two players compete with each other to win a prize. We show the …

… In the next section we introduce the difference-form contest success function. Section 3
provides preliminary results connecting our paper with Che and Gale (2000). We provide plenty …

… on both the groups' incentives to moderate their target policies and their equilibrium utilities.
… each group. However, we also show that under the difference-form CSF the small group …

… Contests that naturally occur in order to solve a dispute or a … and contests that are planned
and organized by a contest designer … difference-form CSF and HDZ, namely (6.10) and (6.12). …

… rules, they show that the contest functions are of the difference-form variety. In particular, …
have a uniform prior over π, the contest function takes the difference form as in Eq. (9) which …

… The present paper analyzes multi-player contests where … These difference-form contests
have appealing properties … In addition, we show that symmetric difference-form contests are …

… design, which strategically manipulates the structural elements of a contest (eg, contest
rules) to promote stated goals. Vojnović (2016) provided a comprehensive review of contest …

… -ride in team contests, but not in individual contests, we see no … literature: behavior in team
contests and work division in teams… from an individual contest to a team contest. According to …