Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96021 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2013-09
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest success functions: the generalized logit and the all-pay auction. We also consider the case in which the government can limit the size of the non-governed interest group in order to determine the scope of rent dissipation, with the goal of either increasing the rent obtained by the government or reducing the wasted resources invested in the contest.
Subjects: 
rent dissipation
central planner
contest
all-pay auction
generalized logit contest success function
JEL: 
D70
D71
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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