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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"Contests"”.
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Strategic learning in design contests
This dissertation examines strategic learning as learning from events and experiences that have significant consequences for organisational survival in a competitive environment. The study is centred on design contest as repeat event systems that in their time bracketed generational progression, …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Contests
… fully resolve the free-rider problem in group contests. Chapter 3 investigates optimal contest design with multiple heterogeneous players. We allow the contest designer to have one or multiple/mixed objectives, which includes the following parts: the total effort; the winner's effort; the …
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
This thesis studies issues in auctions and contests. The seller of an object and the organizer of a contest have many instruments to improve the revenue of the auction or the efficiency of the contest. The three essays in this dissertation shed light on these issues. Chapter 2 investigates how a …
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Essays on auctions, contests, and games
… in industrial organization, with a focus on contests and auctions, and game theory. Chapter 1 develops a new model of multistage R&D procurement contests, in which firms conduct research over a number of stages to develop an innovative product and then supply it to a procurer. I show that the …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Contests and Matching
This thesis contains three chapters on contests and matching. The first two chapters explore the role of target prizes in contests with sabotage. The third chapter studies the optimal college admissions mechanism where students are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
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A checklist for directors of dual intercollegiate athletic contests
… management, and administration of the athletic contests which this college hosted. At that time, new to the field and to the post, he found there were numerous details of which he was completely unaware when preparing for contests in the various sports. Even in the sports with which he was most …
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Honest Signaling in Aggressive Contests Between Ozark Zigzag Salamanders (Plethodon Angusticlavius)
… (ATR), a behavior that occurs in territorial contests in terrestrial salamanders, is an honest indicator of aggressive intent. In staged contests between pairs of Ozark zigzag salamanders (Plethodon angusticlavius), individuals that performed bites spent more time exhibiting ATR prior to …
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Empirical study on the motivations of bidders' second tender offer contests
This study examines the motivations behind the bidders' second tender offers for a sample of 366 bidders who made a first attempt over the period of 1976-1990. In both the short-term and the long-term, bidders do not experience a significant abnormal return. As the bidders do not earn a significant …
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Exploring the situational context of criminal assaults and batteries
… on masculinity, status threats, and character contests, this study uses police data to examine the situational dynamics of dispute-related assaults; Specifically, this study differentiates two types of dispute-related violence: character contests and noncharacter contests. Numerous situational …
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An evaluation of short innovation contest implementation in the federal context
… audience is through the use of short innovation contests. The purpose of this thesis is to better understand the application of this strategy as a tool for technology procurement in the context of government. Through a contest, participants approach a well-defined challenge independently, …
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Exaggerated male weaponry in New Zealand sheet-web spiders (Cambridgea)
… and these weapons are used by males in agonistic contests for access to potential mates. Using this genus and, in particular, the North Island species, Cambridgea foliata, I study the exaggeration of male chelicerae in the context of morphology, behaviour and phylogeny to gain a more total …
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The Dynamics Of Compression On Presidential Nominations
… presented to them. The movement of statewide contests earlier in the nomination calendar, the shortening time between subsequent contests, and the expedited conclusion that is often reached before the official nominating convention has led to a compression of the nomination contest. This …
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History and analysis of intercollegiate debating in America.
… the present. In the United States, forensic contests began in the literary societies in the eighteenth century. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, debate evolved into intercollegiate contests which have continued until the present. At first these contests consisted of three-man …
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Essays on Team-based Incentives
… answering the following question: when designing contests to motivate employees, should managers organize employees to compete in teams or as individuals? I develop a behavioral economics model that shows that if contestants are averse to being responsible for their team’s loss, a team-based …
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