Population uncertainty in contests

DOI10.1007/S00199-004-0605-2MaRDI QIDQ2580969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roger B. Myerson, Karl Wärneryd

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-004-0605-2

zbMATH Keywords

Contestspopulation uncertainty.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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• Complete rent dissipation when the number of rent seekers is uncertain
• Contests between groups of unknown size
• A note on rent dissipation in lottery contests
• Unique equilibrium in contests with incomplete information
• Learning and dropout in contests: an experimental approach
• Entry regulations and optimal prize allocation in parallel contests
• Harnessing beliefs to optimally disclose contestants' types
• The optimal entry fee-prize ratio in Tullock contests
• Contests with endogenous entry
• Incomplete information in rent-seeking contests
• Contests with group size uncertainty: experimental evidence
• Common-value contests with asymmetric information
• Population uncertainty and revealing contestants
• Contests with an uncertain number of prizes with a fixed total value
• Endogenous timing in general rent-seeking and conflict models
• The value of public information in common-value Tullock contests
• Rent dissipation in simple Tullock contests
• Multi-player contests with asymmetric information
• From monopoly to competition: when do optimal contests prevail?
• Voluntary disclosure in asymmetric contests
• How strength asymmetries shape multi-sided conflicts
• A model of parallel contests

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