8th Annual Conference on Contests: Theory and Evidence

Many situations, such as promotional tournaments, sports, electoral race, rent-seeking, animal contests, war, terrorism, etc., can be categorized as contests. Hence, researchers in economics and beyond (e.g., political science, psychology, neuroscience, management, sports, biology, computer science etc.) have employed contest theory in their research. This conference is the biggest conference in this area hosted by different institutes over the earlier years.

This year the conference was organized in a hybrid (in-person and online) format, and a total 94 participants around the globe and across various fields joined the conference. There were 14 parallel sessions focused on various issues of contests such as market, dynamic contests, applications, information, risk behaviour etc., hosting a total of 44 presentations. The Keynote speech was delivered by Prof Debraj Ray from New York University.