Group contests with private information and the “Weakest Link”
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Keywords
All-pay auction; Groups; Bayes-Nash equilibrium; Weakest link; Incomplete information; Coordination;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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