Qiang Fu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the optimal structure of multi-stage sequential elimination games and found that for concave and moderately convex impact functions, the contest organizer should allocate the entire prize purse to a single final prize, regardless of the contest sequence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the optimal structure of multi-stage sequential elimination contests with pooling competition in each stage, and showed that the more complete the contest sequence is, the more efforts can be induced from the contestants.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-battle team game is considered where players from two rival teams form pairwise matches to fight in distinct component battles, which are carried out sequentially or partially.

TL;DR: Under plausible conditions, it is established that the model proposed is stochastically equivalent to the family of multi-prize lottery contests built upon ratio-form contest success functions and sheds light on the micro-foundations of the popularly adopted lottery contest models.

TL;DR: This article found that the stronger group responds to affirmative action more aggressively than the weaker group, which tends to widen the intergroup test score gap, and that when the weaker groups are in the minority, these results reconcile the often assumed conflicts between diversity and academic quality.