Very nice article mentioning Q&A forums similar to my paper idea: Morgan and Wang (CMR 2010) - Tournaments for Ideas See also this Article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Answers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
Month: April 2019
Research tournaments are Tullock contests and hence WTA is optimal
A classic paper of "research tournaments" by Fullerton and McAfee (1999) assumes a single prize (by design). Hoppe-Wewetzer and Wagener (2019) show that a Fullerton–McAfee "research tournament" with multiple prizes is strategically equivalent to a (nested) multi-prize Tullock contest. Given that it is known that Tullock contests are strategically equivalent to "effort+noise" contests with Gumbel … Continue reading Research tournaments are Tullock contests and hence WTA is optimal
