Optimal Contest Design with Incomplete Information: The Role of Negative Prizes
| 主讲人 |
Jun Zhang |
简介 |
<p>In this paper, we analyze the role of negative prizes in a fixed budget contest and fully characterize the effort-maximizing mechanism. Contestants have independent private abilities, and their utility function is additively separable in prizes and effort. The effort-maximizing contest generally requires multiple positive and negative prizes. Low-ability contestants could receive negative prizes, which then generate additional prize money to better incentivize those with suficiently high abilities. But to ensure their participation, when all contestants are of low abilities, they all receive some positive prize regardless of their actual abilities. We find that allowing negative prizes can enhance the total effort dramatically. When contestants are risk neutral, the effort-maximizing mechanism can be implemented by a modified all-pay auction.</p> |
| 时间 |
2017-04-13(Thursday)16:40-18:00 |
地点 |
N303, Econ Building |
| 讲座语言 |
English |
主办单位 |
WISE&SOE |
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类型 |
系列讲座 |
| 联系人信息 |
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主持人 |
Sen Geng |
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| 主讲人简介 |
<div>Jun Zhang is a associate professor and ARC Research Fellow in Economics Discipline Group, School of Business,University of Technology Sydney. Prof. Zhang's research fields mainly cover economic theory, industrial organization, operation management.</div>
<div>For more information, <a href="/Upload/File/2017/4/20170406043923840.pdf">see Prof. Zhang's CV</a>.</div> |
期数 |
高级经济学系列讲座2017春季学期第五讲（总第382讲） |
