Contest Architecture with Public Disclosures
Theoretical Economics
2019-05-30 v2 Computer Science and Game Theory
General Economics
Economics
Abstract
I study optimal disclosure policies in sequential contests. A contest designer chooses at which periods to publicly disclose the efforts of previous contestants. I provide results for a wide range of possible objectives for the contest designer. While different objectives involve different trade-offs, I show that under many circumstances the optimal contest is one of the three basic contest structures widely studied in the literature: simultaneous, first-mover, or sequential contest.
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@article{arxiv.1905.11004,
title = {Contest Architecture with Public Disclosures},
author = {Toomas Hinnosaar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.11004},
year = {2019}
}