Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46283 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3285
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper examines the chance of winning a Tullock-contest when participants differ in both their talent and their attitude towards risk. For the case of CARA preferences, it is shown that the winning probability may be higher for a low-skilled agent with a low degree of risk aversion than for a high-skilled agent with a high degree of risk-aversion. Such an outcome often is undesirable. It will occur if and only if the agents' ratio of degrees of risk aversion is larger than their ratio of skill levels and the rent of the contest is sufficiently high.
Subjects: 
selection contest
asymmetric players
risk aversion
JEL: 
C72
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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