Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37351 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Information and Contests No. D16-V3
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium strategies and prove their uniqueness. Then, we assume contestants to be privately informed about their costs of effort. We prove existence of a pure-strategy equilibrium and provide a sufficient condition for uniqueness. Comparing different informational settings we find that if players are uncertain about the costs of all players, aggregate effort is lower than under both private and complete information. Yet rent dissipation might still be smaller in the latter settings. Numerical examples provide additional insight into the impact of the information structure.
Subjects: 
Rent-seeking
Contest
Asymmetric Information
Private values
JEL: 
D72
D82
D74
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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