Dan Kovenock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1121108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Kovenock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovenock |
| SIGNATURE | KOVENOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chapman University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8823-9547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contests
This article examines the influence of focality in Colonel Blotto games with a lottery contest success function (CSF), where the equilibrium is unique and in pure strategies. We hypothesise that the salience of battlefields affects strategic behaviour (the salient target hypothesis) and present a controlled test of this hypothesis against Nash predictions, checking the robustness of equilibrium play. When the sources of salience come from asymmet…
The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments
Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a comprehensive review of experimental research on these three canonical contests. First, we review studies investigating the basic structure of cont…
Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics
Is the 50-State Strategy Optimal
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This article investigates the optimality of the 50-state strategy in a simple dynamic game of campaign resource allocation in which expenditures act as a form of investment. Neith…
Electoral Poaching and Party Identification
This article studies electoral competition in a model of redistributive politics with deterministic voting and heterogeneous voter loyalties to political parties. We construct a natural measure of `party strength' based on the sizes and intensities of a party's loyal voter segments and demonstrate how party behavior varies with the two parties' strengths. In equilibrium, parties target or `poach' a strict subset of the opposition party's loyal vo…
Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction‐Theoretic Approach
A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case. Rational litigants influence the quality of their cases by hiring skilful attorneys. This framework permits us to compare the equilibrium legal expenditures…
The incidence of overdissipation in rent-seeking contests
The all-pay auction with complete information
The solution to the Tullock rent-seeking game when R>2: Mixed-strategy equilibria and mean dissipation rates
The solution to the Tullock rent-seeking game when R>2: Mixed-strategy equilibria and mean dissipation rates
Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction‐Theoretic Approach
A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case. Rational litigants influence the quality of their cases by hiring skilful attorneys. This framework permits us to compare the equilibrium legal expenditures…
The incidence of overdissipation in rent-seeking contests
Electoral Poaching and Party Identification
This article studies electoral competition in a model of redistributive politics with deterministic voting and heterogeneous voter loyalties to political parties. We construct a natural measure of `party strength' based on the sizes and intensities of a party's loyal voter segments and demonstrate how party behavior varies with the two parties' strengths. In equilibrium, parties target or `poach' a strict subset of the opposition party's loyal vo…
Is the 50-State Strategy Optimal
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This article investigates the optimality of the 50-state strategy in a simple dynamic game of campaign resource allocation in which expenditures act as a form of investment. Neith…
The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics
The solution to the Tullock rent-seeking game when R>2: Mixed-strategy equilibria and mean dissipation rates
The all-pay auction with complete information
The incidence of overdissipation in rent-seeking contests
Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction‐Theoretic Approach
A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case. Rational litigants influence the quality of their cases by hiring skilful attorneys. This framework permits us to compare the equilibrium legal expenditures…
Electoral Poaching and Party Identification
This article studies electoral competition in a model of redistributive politics with deterministic voting and heterogeneous voter loyalties to political parties. We construct a natural measure of `party strength' based on the sizes and intensities of a party's loyal voter segments and demonstrate how party behavior varies with the two parties' strengths. In equilibrium, parties target or `poach' a strict subset of the opposition party's loyal vo…
Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics
Is the 50-State Strategy Optimal
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This article investigates the optimality of the 50-state strategy in a simple dynamic game of campaign resource allocation in which expenditures act as a form of investment. Neith…
A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments
Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a comprehensive review of experimental research on these three canonical contests. First, we review studies investigating the basic structure of cont…
The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contests
This article examines the influence of focality in Colonel Blotto games with a lottery contest success function (CSF), where the equilibrium is unique and in pure strategies. We hypothesise that the salience of battlefields affects strategic behaviour (the salient target hypothesis) and present a controlled test of this hypothesis against Nash predictions, checking the robustness of equilibrium play. When the sources of salience come from asymmet…
Economics (9 works) · Microeconomics (9 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mathematical economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Auction Theory and Applications (4 works)