Success in contests
研究了两个参赛者通过努力争夺奖品的竞赛模型，提出竞赛成功函数在竞赛理论中类似于生产函数在企业理论中的作用，并试图填补除均衡存在性外缺乏一般性结论的空白。
Abstract Models of two contestants exerting effort to win a prize are very common and widely used in political economy. The contest success function plays as fundamental a role in the theory of contests as does the production function in the theory of the firm, yet beyond the existence of equilibrium few general results are known. This paper seeks to remedy that gap.