A note on multi-winner contest mechanisms

Subhasish Modak Chowdhury; Sang-Hyun Kim

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.007

A note on multi-winner contest mechanisms

Subhasish Modak Chowdhury, Sang-Hyun Kim

School of Economics

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Abstract

We consider a multi-winner nested elimination contest in which losers are sequentially eliminated to attain the set of winners. This is a variant of a widely used mechanism introduced by Clark and Riis (1996) that allows one to select the winners sequentially. We show that the current mechanism becomes equivalent to the mechanism suggested by Berry (1993) in which the winners are chosen simultaneously.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	357-359
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	125
Issue number	3
Early online date	18 Oct 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.007
Publication status	Published - Dec 2014

Keywords

Contest
Multiple winner
Selection mechanism

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