The theory of contests: a survey

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Group contest success functions (2009, background): “where 0m = (0;:::;0): De…ne F (s) = f (s)=f (0m): Thus F (�1m +y) = F (�1m)F (y): ( 10 )”
Policy Influence and Private Returns from Lobbying in the Energy Sector (2016, background): “A recent study by Facchini et al. (2011) focuses on immigration policy, using the lobbying disclosure data.”
Contest functions : theoretical foundations and issues in estimation (2013, background): “Stochastic foundations are based on assumptions about how performance in a contest – in the sense of probabilities of winning and losing – might be a noisy function of efforts.”
Target Setting in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from China (2018, unknown): “The above assumptions are standard in a Tullock contest model (Corchón, 2007).”