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- Title
Multiplicative output form and its applications to problems in the homogenous innovation contest model.
- Authors
Tian, Xu; Bi, Gongbing
- Abstract
Recently, the innovation contests have been an important tool to provide ideas or solutions for companies. In a homogenous innovation contest model, the output form of contestants is usually assumed as a sum of their effort and a random shock. In this paper, we focus on the multiplicative output form in an innovation contest, in which the output form of contestants is a product of their effort and a random shock. We address several contest problems in the model with multiplicative output form, including the award scheme, entry policy, and endogenous duration. We show that the results in the model with additive output form do not always hold in the model with multiplicative output form. Our findings can explain some practical observations and suggest that the model with multiplicative output form can also be a good alternative, which enrich the contest theory.
- Subjects
CONTESTS; GAME theory
- Publication
OR Spectrum, 2022, Vol 44, Issue 3, p709
- ISSN
0171-6468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00291-022-00667-y