Marco Serena

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

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Contest Theory: A Survey

Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2018
Luis C. Corchón and Marco Serena
Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Contests

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Harnessing beliefs to optimally disclose contestants' types

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-11
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2021
Marco Serena
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Contests, Information Disclosure, Strategic Complements and Substitutes, Skewness

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Winners' Efforts in Multi-Battle Team Contests

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2019-03
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Stefano Barbieri and Marco Serena
Tulane University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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team contest, winners' efforts, temporal structures, ordering of battles

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Biasing Dynamic Contests Between Ex-Ante Symmetric Players

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-06
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 29 May 2018 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2022
Stefano Barbieri and Marco Serena
Tulane University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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dynamic contests, bias, momentum effect

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Properties of Contests: Constructing contest success functions from best-responses"

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-10
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2021
Luis C. Corchón and Marco Serena
Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Contest, Rationalization

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Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-07
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2018
Christos Mavridis and Marco Serena
Lancaster University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Costly Voting, Pivotal Voter Model, Complete Information

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Level-k models and overspending in contests

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-09
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2022
Marco Serena and Malin Arve
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
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Contest, Level-k reasoning

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All-in Fighting

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2021-16
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
Stefano Barbieri and Marco Serena
Tulane University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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A Belief-based Theory for Private Information Games

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-12
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2022
Marco Serena
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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common-knowledge, hierarchy of beliefs, private information games

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Fair Representation in Primaries: Heterogeneity and the New Hampshire Effect

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2020-07
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2021
Stefano Barbieri and Marco Serena
Tulane University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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C72, D72, D74, D82

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Quality Contests

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Aug 2016
Marco Serena
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Optimal Contest Design; Expected Winners' Effort; Contestants Exclusion; Leveling the playing-field

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The Value of Information on Deadlines; Successful Opaque Management

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2020
Marco Serena
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Deadline, Information, Productivity, Procrastination

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Sequential Contests Revisited

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2018
Marco Serena
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Contest Design, Sequential Contests, Simultaneous Contests

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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
Wuhan University and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic abilities, bid cap, disclosure

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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
Wuhan University, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Renmin University of China, School of Economics
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contest, all-pay auction, stochastic abilities, disclosure policies

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Sorting Contests and Contestants

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2023
Stefano Barbieri and Marco Serena
Tulane University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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contests, sorting

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An Empirical Analysis of Stubborn Bargaining

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2021–05
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2021
Jonas Send and Marco Serena
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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bargaining, stubbornness

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Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size and Asymmetric Benefits

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2019-17
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2020
Christos Mavridis and Marco Serena
Lancaster University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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redistribution, costly voting, pivotal voter model

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On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms

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On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2023 – 04
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2023
Marco Serena and Christian Ewerhart
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and University of Zurich, Department of Economics
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Differences of random variables, Density functions, Characteristic function, Uniform distribution

On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms

Posted: 23 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
Christian Ewerhart and Marco Serena
University of Zurich, Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
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Differences of Random Variables, Density Functions, Characteristic Function, Uniform Distribution

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Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Affiliation

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Mar 2023
Bo Chen, Marco Serena and Zijia Wang
Wuhan University, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Renmin University of China, School of Economics
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All-pay auction, Affiliation, Stochastic participation, Disclosure policies

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Disclosure Policies in All-Pay Auctions with Affiliation

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2014 - 2023 – 05
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2023
Bo Chen, Marco Serena and Zijia Wang
Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Renmin University of China, School of Economics
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All-pay auction, Affiliation, Stochastic participation, Disclosure policies.

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Winner’s Effort Maximization in Large Contests

Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2020-13
Posted: 30 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2022
Stefano Barbieri and Marco Serena
Tulane University - Department of Economics and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

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