Limited capacity in project selection: competition through evidence production

DOI10.1007/S00199-016-1021-0MaRDI QIDQ1707313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raphael Boleslavsky, Christopher Cotton

Publication date 29 March 2018

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/274669/files/qed_wp_1343.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

project selectionall-pay auctionlobbyingcompetitive Bayesian persuasiongeneral lotto gamesearch for evidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) 2-person games (91A05) Positional games (pursuit and evasion, etc.) (91A24)

Recommendations

• Project selection: commitment and competition
• Competition in persuasion: an experiment
• Competitive information disclosure by multiple senders
• Competition in persuasion
• Competitive disclosure of correlated information

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• Competitive information disclosure by multiple senders
• Competitive disclosure of correlated information
• Persuasion with costly precision
• Threshold tests as quality signals: optimal strategies, equilibria, and Price of anarchy
• Competitive information disclosure in random search markets
• Endogenous threshold selection with two-interval restricted tests
• Informational benefits of managerial myopia
• Long information design
• Project selection: commitment and competition
• Centralized policymaking and informational lobbying
• ENTREPRENEUR–INVESTOR INFORMATION DESIGN

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