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Two-stage elimination contests with optimal head starts
Cohen, Noam; Maor, Guy; Sela, Aner - In: Review of economic design : RED 22 (2018) 3/4, pp. 177-192
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A model of strategic delegation in contests between groups
Brandauer, Stefan; Englmaier, Florian - In: Review of Economic Design 13 (2009) 3, pp. 205-232
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046756
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Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups with free riding
Epstein, Gil; Mealem, Yosef - In: Public Choice 139 (2009) 3, pp. 357-369
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Enduring Rents.
Aidt, T.; Hillman, A. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2008
Rent seeking is often studied with reference to a contemporaneous rent evaluated at a point in time. We study the social cost of rent seeking when rents endure over time, but may have to be re-contested because of imperfect rent protection, or may disappear because of deregulation. The present...
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Sorting in iterated incumbency contests
Häfner, Samuel; Nöldeke, Georg - In: Economic theory 74 (2022) 4, pp. 1103-1140
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Behavioral variation in Tullock contests
Masiliunas, Aidas; Mengel, Friederike; Reiß, J. Philipp - 2014
power of Nash equilibrium observed in Tullock contests. In our standard contest treatment, only 7% of choices are consistent … huge behavioral variation typically observed in Tullock contests. …
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On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...
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Contests with group-specific public goods and complementarities in efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 89 (2013), pp. 9-22
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Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games
Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke; Sefton, Martin - 2012
very different effects depending on the contest structure. We observe the highest rent dissipation in stochastic contests … when players only get feedback on own choices and earnings. In these contests aggregate expenditures usually exceed the …. In contrast, in deterministic contests average expenditures converge to equilibrium levels when subjects only get …
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Contests with productive effort
Siegel, Ron - In: International journal of game theory : official journal … 43 (2014) 3, pp. 515-523
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