This paper studies equilibrium behavior in a class of games that models asymmetric
competitions with unconditional and conditional investments. Such competitions include …

We consider contests with many, possibly heterogeneous, players and prizes, and show that
the equilibrium outcomes of such contests are approximated by the outcomes of …

I examine a contest with identity-dependent rules in which contestants are privately informed
and ex ante heterogeneous. A contestant may suffer from a handicap or benefit from a head …

I show that a unique equilibrium exists in an asymmetric two-player all-pay auction with a
discrete signal structure, correlated signals, and interdependent valuations. The proof is …

Many crowdsourcing scenarios are heterogeneous in the sense that, not only the workers'
types (eg, abilities or costs) are different, but the beliefs (probabilistic knowledge) about their …

This paper studies multiprize contests in which players' costs need not be strictly increasing
in their performance. Such costs accommodate various types of asymmetries, including …

This paper studies complete-information, all-pay contests with asymmetric players
competing for heterogeneous prizes. In these contests, each player chooses a performance …

We study multi-stage sequential all-pay contests (auctions) where heterogeneous
contestants are privately informed about a parameter (ability) that affects their cost of effort …

Advances in information technologies enable firms to collect detailed consumer data and
target individual consumers with tailored ads. Consumer data are among the most valuable …

This paper analyzes a tug-of-war contest between two teams. In each round of the tug-of-
war, a pair of agents from the opposing teams competes in a private value all-pay auction …