Introduction

Abstract

. The workshop brought together 25 scholars from around the world to present and discuss 14 papers over a period of two days. We are grateful to CESifo and to its president and chief executive officer, Hans Werner Sinn, for funding the workshop and for the organizational support provided by Karin Fournier and Deirdre Hall.The conference program included pure and applied theoretical contributions, as well as experimental tests of theory. The ten papers in this symposium are a strict subset of the papers presented, each revised based upon the comments of the conference discussants and the anonymous reviewers in the regular editorial process.The first four of these papers present extensions of several fundamental contest models to address, respectively, risk aversion, incomplete information, richer prize structures, and externalities from bids. The first, by Cornes and Hartley (2012), examines