Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102228 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4825
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal cost of effort incurred by the individual contestants. We also wish to stress the significance of intra-group heterogeneity in comparing the performance of cost sharing relative to prize sharing as a means of resolution of the collective action problem faced by the competing groups and present preliminary results for such comparisons. Our main results ascertain that unequal valuations of the contested prize within a group tend to result in a low degree of cost sharing. That is, intra-group heterogeneity prevents the group from establishing strong cost-sharing selective incentives.
Subjects: 
collective contest
selective incentives
cost sharing
intra-group heterogeneity
elasticity of marginal effort costs
prize sharing
JEL: 
D70
D71
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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