Brian Roberson will present the paper titled "Large Innovation Contests with Cognitively Diverse Teams" (joint work with Mouli Modak).

This talk is part of the Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict, a bi-weekly online seminar series with researchers from across the world. You can sign up to the Global Network to get information and invitations (including the Zoom Link for each event) about the Global Seminar here: Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen: Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict (mpg.de).

Research oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs.

Feng Zhu will present the paper titled "Creative Contests - Theory and Experiment".

This talk is part of the Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict, a bi-weekly online seminar series with researchers from across the world. You can sign up to the Global Network to get information and invitations (including the Zoom Link for each event) about the Global Seminar here: Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen: Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict (mpg.de).

Scott Gates will present the paper titled "Forces of Darkness: The Strategic Dynamics of Territorial Control and Resource Allocation during Civil War" (joint work with Siri Aas Rustad, and Christopher Butler).

This talk is part of the Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict, a bi-weekly online seminar series with researchers from across the world. You can sign up to the Global Network to get information and invitations (including the Zoom Link for each event) about the Global Seminar here: Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen: Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict (mpg.de).

Qian Jiao will present the paper titled "Optimal Contest Design with Tree Architecture" (joint work with Zhonghong Kuang, Yiran Liu, and Yang Yu).

Carsten K.W. De Dreu will present the paper titled "On Being Unpredictable and Winning" (joint work with Andrea Arciniegas, Jörg Gross, Laura C. Hoenig, Michael Rojek-Giffin, and Daan T. Scheepers).

Seth Benzell will present the paper titled "A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495-1918" (joint work with Kevin Cooke).

Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen will present the paper titled "Know Thy Enemy: Information Acquisition in Contests".