Dynamic Tournament Design: An Application to Prediction Contests∗
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We build a tractable structural model to study the dynamic participation incentives in online competitions. We estimate the model using publicly available data from 17 prediction contests hosted by the website Kaggle.com. We study how participants’ incentives are shaped by the contest design in a series of counterfactual exercises. Specifically, we study how disclosing a leaderboard, awarding different number of prizes, and capping the number of participants affect the participants’ incentives to make submissions throughout the contest as well as the contest outcomes.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017