Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39437
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Wirtschaftstheoretische Diskussionsbeiträge No. 05-07
Publisher: 
Universität Dortmund, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Dortmund
Abstract: 
We characterize the equilibrium of the all-pay auction with general convex cost of effort and sequential effort choices. We consider a set of n players who are arbitrarily partitioned into a group of players who choose their efforts 'early' and a group of players who choose 'late'. Only the player with the lowest cost of effort has a positive payoff in any equilibrium. This payoff depends on his own timing vis-a-vis the timing of others. We also show that the choice of timing can be endogenized, in which case the strongest player typically chooses 'late', whereas all other players are indifferent with respect to their choice of timing. In the most prominent equilibrium the player with the lowest cost of effort wins the auction at zero aggregate cost.
Subjects: 
Sequential all-pay auction
complete information
generalized cost
generalized Stackelberg game
JEL: 
D72
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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