OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
To reserve a time to meet with the speaker, please register at the following form:
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Abstract:
Despite the potential for significant insights, the theory of contests has been rarely applied to price competition between firms. To help address this gap, our paper provides a general framework that encompasses a broad family of all-pay contests and sales competition models. For the case of two players, we analytically characterize all potential equilibria for any arbitrary level of asymmetry. To further demonstrate the power of this approach and the connections between contests and sales competition, we then consider a number of applications, including an advertising platform’s optimal choice of fees.
