Contests with multi-tasking

Derek J. Clark and Kai Konrad

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: The standard contest model in which participants compete in a single dimension is well understood and documented. Multi-dimension extensions are possible but are liable to increase the complexity of the contest structure, mitigating one of its main advantages: simplicity. In this paper we propose an extension in which competition ensues in several dimensions, and a competitor that wins a certain number of these is awarded a prize. The amount of information needed to run the contest is hence limited to the number of dimensions won by each player. We look at the design of this contest from the point of view of maximising effort in the contest (per dimension and totally), and show that there will be a tendency to run small contests with few dimensions. The standard Tullock model and its results are encompassed by our framework. © The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2007.

Keywords: competition (economics); design; modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2 109(2007): pp. 303-319

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