The Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History and the Department of Economics at the University of Reading, UK, and the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University, USA are pleased to host the 10th annual conference “Contests: Theory and Evidence” on Thursday 27 June and Friday 28 June 2024 at the University of Reading, UK. Prof Aner Sela (Ben Gurion University) will deliver the keynote speech. The conference is associated with a special issue on contests by the Journal of Public Economic Theory.  

We invite theoretical, experimental, and empirical work on any aspect of contests including but not limited to economics, management, politics, psychology, sports, biology, neuroscience, computer science, etc.

The conference organisers are Joo Young Jeon (University of Reading), Subhasish M. Chowdhury (University of Sheffield), Steven Bosworth (University of Reading) and Anwesha Mukherjee (University of Reading).