Reverse contests

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Abstract

We study two forms of a reverse contest. In reverse contest A the designer imposes a punishment such that the agent with the highest effort who caused the greatest damage is punished. Conversely, in reverse contest B, the designer awards a prize to the agent with the lowest effort who caused the smallest damage. We analyze the behavior of the agents in both contest forms and demonstrate that asymmetry of the players' payoff functions does not necessarily yield different expected payoffs.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)439-441
Number of pages3
JournalOperations Research Letters
Volume49
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2021

Keywords

  • Contests
  • Prizes
  • Punishments

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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