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Bo Chen

Shenzhen University

3688 Nanhai Road, Nanshan District

Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060

China

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

18

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Scholarly Papers (18)

1.

Information Disclosure in Dynamic Research Contests

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
Bo Chen, Bo Chen and Dmitriy Knyazev
Shenzhen University, Southern Methodist University (SMU) and University of Vienna
Downloads 245 (311,323)

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Contest Design, Disclosure Policy, Innovation, Procurement, Research Tournament

2.

Optimal Discrimination-free Auctions

Management Science, 2025
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2025
Bo Chen and Dmitriy Knyazev
Shenzhen University and University of Vienna
Downloads 172 (440,151)

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Discrimination, mechanism design, optimal auction, re�serve price

3.

Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Affiliated Values

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Bo Chen, Marco Serena and Zijia Wang
Shenzhen University, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros CUNEF and Renmin University of China, School of Economics
Downloads 133 (547,695)
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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic abilities, disclosure policies

4.

Elimination Tournament Design under Psychological Momentum

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Oct 2017
Bo Chen and Xiandeng Jiang
Shenzhen University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE)
Downloads 127 (572,948)

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Elimination Tournaments, Psychological Momentum, Contest Design

5.

Optimal Disclosure in All-pay Auctions with Interdependent Valuations

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Jan 2023
Bo Chen and Bo Chen
Shenzhen University and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Downloads 112 (630,858)

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All-Pay Auction, Contest, Information Disclosure, Bayesian Persuasion, Stochastic Valuations

6.

Labor Market Matching with Ensuing Competitive Externalities in Large Economies

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Bo Chen
Shenzhen University
Downloads 108 (649,907)
Citation 2

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Matching, Externalities, General Equilibrium, Fixed Point, Efficiency.

7.

Disclosure Policies in All-Pay Auctions with Bid Caps

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2020 - 08
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2022
Bo Chen and Marco Serena
Shenzhen University and Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros CUNEF
Downloads 100 (694,528)

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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic abilities, bid cap, disclosure

8.

Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Bid Caps and Stochastic Entry

Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2021
Bo Chen, Lijun Ma, Zhaobo Zhu and Yu Zhou
Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University and Wuhan University - College of Life Sciences (CLS)
Downloads 88 (753,595)
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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic entry, bid cap, disclosure

9.

On the Exclusion Principle in Tullock Contests

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Shenzhen University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, American University of Sharjah - Department of Economics and Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)
Downloads 84 (777,583)

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contest, stochastic abilities, exclusion principle.

10.

Subsidizing Participation

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2026
Shenzhen University, University of Vienna and Nanjing Audit University
Downloads 82 (790,029)

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Optimal Subsidization, Participation Costs, Deductible-Cap Subsidization, Platform Economy, Auctions, Contests, Cournot Competition, Network Externalities

11.

Symmetric Mechanism Design: Comment

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Apr 2023
Bo Chen and Dmitriy Knyazev
Shenzhen University and University of Vienna
Downloads 80 (803,225)

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Mechanism Design, Symmetry, Fairness, Strategyproof

12.

The Regularization and Optimal Design of All-Pay Auctions

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Jun 2025
Bo Chen, Jingfeng Lu and Pengcheng Bai
Shenzhen University, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and Singapore Management University
Downloads 67 (899,324)

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contests, all-pay auctions, favoritism, information disclosure JEL classification: C72, D44, D82

13.

Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Endogenous Entry

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Feb 2020
Bo Chen
Shenzhen University
Downloads 61 (951,658)

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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic entry, disclosure

14.

Affiliated Multi-Unit All-Pay Auctions: Equilibrium and Full Surplus Extraction

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Dec 2025 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2026
Bo Chen, Jingfeng Lu and Zijia Wang
Shenzhen University, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and Renmin University of China, School of Economics
Downloads 54 (1,041,696)

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Bayesian Persuasion, Full Surplus Extraction, All-Pay Auction, Affiliated Types, Multi-Unit Auction

15.

On The Effects of Bid Caps in All-Pay Auctions

Economics Letters, Vol. 177, 2019
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
Bo Chen
Shenzhen University
Downloads 47 (1,097,529)

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all-pay auction, interdependent valuation, affiliation, bid cap

16.

Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Affiliation

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Mar 2023
Bo Chen, Marco Serena and Zijia Wang
Shenzhen University, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros CUNEF and Renmin University of China, School of Economics
Downloads 46 (1,109,210)

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All-pay auction, Affiliation, Stochastic participation, Disclosure policies

17.

Downstream Competition and Upstream Labor Market Matching

International Journal of Game Theory, 16 July, 2019, Earlier version: Bonn Econ Disscussion Paper 08/2013
Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
Bo Chen
Shenzhen University

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Matching, Assignment, Externalities, Cournot Competition, Labor Market, Sorting

18.

On Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Stochastic Entry

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 70, 2017
Posted: 26 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2019
Shenzhen University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) and University of Vienna

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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic entry, asymmetric entry, disclosure

Other Papers (2)

Total Downloads: 65
1.

A Supplementary Note to 'Maximal Revenue in All-pay Auctions: Disclosure vs Discrimination'

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Sep 2020
Bo Chen and Bo Chen
Shenzhen University and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
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All-Pay Auction, Contest, Disclosure, Stochastic Abilities

2.

Subsidizing Participation Costs

This paper is superseded by: "Optimal Subsidy Design for Verifiable Participation Costs"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5368769

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2025
Bo Chen and Dmitriy Knyazev
Shenzhen University and University of Vienna
Downloads 25 (1,089,202)

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Auctions, Participation costs, Subsidization