October 25th, 2018 12:00 Room 207 *Department of Economics and Finance* LUISS Viale Romania 32 00196 Roma *Speaker:* Bernhard von Stengel / London School of Economics *Title: * *“Equilibria in the challenge tournament”* *Abstract:* *“Arad and Rubinstein (2013) describe a challenge tournament where n players have a binary choice and play a round-robin tournament where they score against each other randomly for a stake that depends on their choices. The player with the highest total score wins, with ties resolved randomly. They conjecture that for n > 3 the only equilibrium is that all players take the riskier choice. We present work in progress on an elementary proof of this conjecture which is based on a simple dominance argument.”* The calendar of the future seminars can be found at http://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/prossimi-seminari ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza LUISS Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/