Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence

Modelling Animal Behaviour in Contests: Conventions for Resource Allocation

Performance-Based Resource Allocation in Higher Education: A Black Box Containing the Paradox of Increasing Efficiency and Decreasing Productivity

To cope with escalating financial resource limitations from both expanding demands for higher education and experiencing a relatively reduction in public support, higher education units have profoundly adopted a performance-based resource allocation mechanism in recent years. Nevertheless, empirical evaluation findings show that the presumed improvement in performance has not been fulfilled. Us...

Competition amongst Contests

This article analyses the optimal allocation of prizes in contests. While existing models on contest design take the set of participants as being exogenously given, in our model contests compete for participants. Our analysis provides a new argument for the widespread occurrence of prizes that reward suboptimal performance. Moreover, we identify a negative relationship between a contest’s predi...

Auctions or Contests ? Resource allocation under strategic uncertainty

We compare methods to allocate resources or operator licenses in industries where the future value of the resource is unknown at the time of allocation as it depends on ex-post joint actions of operators. For example, the value of radio spectrum licenses may depend on ex-post investments into infrastructure development by the operators. Some countries consider infrastructure development among t...

Assessing and Improving Performance: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Priority Setting and Resource Allocation in a Canadian Health Region

Background In order to meet the challenges presented by increasing demand and scarcity of resources, healthcare organizations are faced with difficult decisions related to resource allocation. Tools to facilitate evaluation and improvement of these processes could enable greater transparency and more optimal distribution of resources.   Methods The Resource Allocation Performance Assessment Too...