All-Pay Contests

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Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy † (2016, background): “Such tour-naments are sometimes modeled as all-pay auctions, but the prior work has focused on questions of optimal mechanism/prize design, rather than on the types of problems best solved via contests (see, e.g., Che and Gale (2003); Siegel (2009)).”
Asymmetric Contests with Conditional Investments (2010, background): “The participation result of Siegel (2009) provides a sufficient condition for precisely m + 1 players to participate in any equilibrium.”
Grand Innovation Prizes: A theoretical, normative, and empirical evaluation (2012, background): “Galvanized by compelling narratives of historical prizes (Sobel, 1995; Siegel, 2009), a community of activists across the public and private sectors increasingly champion GIPs.”