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Carrots and sticks: collaboration of taxation and subsidies in contests

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  • Aner Sela

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  • Yizhaq Minchuk

    (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva)

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  • Aner Sela & Yizhaq Minchuk, 2024. "Carrots and sticks: collaboration of taxation and subsidies in contests," Working Papers 2407, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    All-pay auctions; incomplete information; taxation; subsidies;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies

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