CfP: Tournaments: Theory, Experiments and Applications, Barcelona June 2-3, 2026

[Dmitry Ryvkin]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the workshop

Tournaments: Theory, Experiments and Applications (ToTEA)

to be held on June 2-3, 2026 in Barcelona as part of the Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum. 

We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions on a wide range of topics, including the design of rank-based incentive schemes and their applications to organizational behavior, innovation, politics, sports, conflict, and beyond.

Call for papers

Keynote Speakers:

• Daniel Kovenock, Chapman University
• Margaret Meyer, Nuffield College, Oxford University

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2026. To submit a paper, please use this link. Submissions should include either a full paper or an extended abstract with the main results. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified approximately by the end of March. A preliminary program will be announced by the end of April.

Note that there are many other workshops within the Summer Forum taking place around the same time. If you have other relevant papers, you may want to consider submitting them to those events as well.

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona!

The Organizers:
Mikhail Drugov (UAB, NES, CEPR) and Dmitry Ryvkin (RMIT)

Apologies for cross-posting.