Online contests have become a prominent form of innovation procurement. Contest
platforms often display a real-time public leaderboard to provide performance feedback. The …

We derive an optimal dynamic contest for environments where effort can be monitored only
through a coarse, binary performance measure and the principal chooses prize-allocation …

We consider the design of contests when the principal can choose both the prize profile and
how the prizes are allocated as a function of a possibly noisy signal about the agents' efforts …

We consider the design of contests for n agents when the principal can choose both the
prize profile and the contest success function. Our framework includes Tullock contests …

We study information disclosure in a dynamic multi‐agent research contest, where each
agent privately searches for innovations and submits his best to compete for a winner‐takes …

We study contests with technological uncertainty, where contestants can invest in different
technologies of uncertain value. The principal, who is also uncertain about the value of the …

We study project development and selection by an organization whose members prefer
different projects. The organization faces a basic trade-off between fostering collaboration …

I study how organizations assign tasks to identify the best candidate to promote among a
pool of workers. Task allocation and workers' motivation interact through the organization's …

This paper proposes a dynamic research contest, namely the chasing contest, in which two
asymmetric contestants exert costly effort to accomplish two breakthroughs in a continuous …

This paper explores the design of an R&D contest by a sponsor who can charge entry fees
and allocate a fixed amount of productive resources across firms. We characterize the …