Derek J Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek J Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek J |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7355-4595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Investment incentives in contests
Competition among rivals is often modeled as a contest in which the probability of winning is increasing in own effort. We consider incentives for players to attempt to influence their winning chances by undertaking a pre-contest investment. Investment costs are private information, and the outcome is stochastic. We characterize equilibrium by a threshold of the cost parameter that determines investment, and delineate cases where all players inve…
Investing to get a head start in contests
Ibn Khaldun’s Labor Theory of Value and the Question of Race: Revisiting the “Nondebates of the 1970s” through The Muqaddimah
In the first volume of Capital, Marx argued that the labor theory of value could only be discovered in capitalist societies. Building on Marx’s premise, this article examines Ibn Khaldun’s (1377) The Muqaddimah, which presents one of the first labor theories of value in world history. After explaining different elements of Ibn Khaldun’s labor theory of value, the article revisits what Giovanni Arrighi referred to as the “nondebates of the 1970s” …
Competitive balance when winning breeds winners
In contest settings, heterogeneity between contestants generally leads to low effort provision, and many instruments have been suggested to restore competitive balance. We suggest that heterogeneity may evolve depending upon the outcome of previous contests. Restoring competitive balance in this setting is challenging, and we consider the choice faced by a principal who can distribute a prize fund over two consecutive all-pay auction contests. Co…
Developing Resilience for Social Work Practice
This book’s arrival on my desk was timely. It was the start of a new year, making many promises to myself about professional and personal self-improvement. Twenty five years in the profession, and
Learning by doing in contests
Foreclosure in contests
Rational benevolence in small committees
Asymmetric Conflict: Weakest Link against Best Shot
The authors study conflict on multiple fronts. A defending player needs to successfully defend all fronts, and an attacker needs to win at only one. Multiple fronts result in a considerable disadvantage for the defending player, and even if there is a defense advantage at each of them, the payoff of the defending player is zero if the number of fronts is large. With some positive probability, in the equilibrium defending players surrender without…
How Unpleasant a Result? A Comment on Amegashie
Learning the structure of a simple rent-seeking game
Pressure and the division of a public budget
A multi-winner nested rent-seeking contest
A multi-winner nested rent-seeking contest
Asymmetric Conflict: Weakest Link against Best Shot
The authors study conflict on multiple fronts. A defending player needs to successfully defend all fronts, and an attacker needs to win at only one. Multiple fronts result in a considerable disadvantage for the defending player, and even if there is a defense advantage at each of them, the payoff of the defending player is zero if the number of fronts is large. With some positive probability, in the equilibrium defending players surrender without…
How Unpleasant a Result? A Comment on Amegashie
Ibn Khaldun’s Labor Theory of Value and the Question of Race: Revisiting the “Nondebates of the 1970s” through The Muqaddimah
In the first volume of Capital, Marx argued that the labor theory of value could only be discovered in capitalist societies. Building on Marx’s premise, this article examines Ibn Khaldun’s (1377) The Muqaddimah, which presents one of the first labor theories of value in world history. After explaining different elements of Ibn Khaldun’s labor theory of value, the article revisits what Giovanni Arrighi referred to as the “nondebates of the 1970s” …
Developing Resilience for Social Work Practice
This book’s arrival on my desk was timely. It was the start of a new year, making many promises to myself about professional and personal self-improvement. Twenty five years in the profession, and
Learning the structure of a simple rent-seeking game
Pressure and the division of a public budget
A multi-winner nested rent-seeking contest
Learning the structure of a simple rent-seeking game
Pressure and the division of a public budget
How Unpleasant a Result? A Comment on Amegashie
Asymmetric Conflict: Weakest Link against Best Shot
The authors study conflict on multiple fronts. A defending player needs to successfully defend all fronts, and an attacker needs to win at only one. Multiple fronts result in a considerable disadvantage for the defending player, and even if there is a defense advantage at each of them, the payoff of the defending player is zero if the number of fronts is large. With some positive probability, in the equilibrium defending players surrender without…
Rational benevolence in small committees
Foreclosure in contests
Learning by doing in contests
Developing Resilience for Social Work Practice
This book’s arrival on my desk was timely. It was the start of a new year, making many promises to myself about professional and personal self-improvement. Twenty five years in the profession, and
Competitive balance when winning breeds winners
In contest settings, heterogeneity between contestants generally leads to low effort provision, and many instruments have been suggested to restore competitive balance. We suggest that heterogeneity may evolve depending upon the outcome of previous contests. Restoring competitive balance in this setting is challenging, and we consider the choice faced by a principal who can distribute a prize fund over two consecutive all-pay auction contests. Co…
Ibn Khaldun’s Labor Theory of Value and the Question of Race: Revisiting the “Nondebates of the 1970s” through The Muqaddimah
In the first volume of Capital, Marx argued that the labor theory of value could only be discovered in capitalist societies. Building on Marx’s premise, this article examines Ibn Khaldun’s (1377) The Muqaddimah, which presents one of the first labor theories of value in world history. After explaining different elements of Ibn Khaldun’s labor theory of value, the article revisits what Giovanni Arrighi referred to as the “nondebates of the 1970s” …
Investment incentives in contests
Competition among rivals is often modeled as a contest in which the probability of winning is increasing in own effort. We consider incentives for players to attempt to influence their winning chances by undertaking a pre-contest investment. Investment costs are private information, and the outcome is stochastic. We characterize equilibrium by a threshold of the cost parameter that determines investment, and delineate cases where all players inve…
Investing to get a head start in contests
Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Public finance (8 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · CONTEST (6 works) · Game Theory and Applications (6 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)