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Sabotaging Potential Rivals

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  • J. Atsu Amegashie
  • Marco Runkel

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This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of players there is a pure-strategy equilibrium in which only the most able contestant engages in sabotage while less able contestants do not. The most able contestant may therefore prefer a situation where sabotage is allowed to one where sabotage is not allowed. For another partition of players, there is a unique equilibrium in which none of the players invests in sabotage.

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  • J. Atsu Amegashie & Marco Runkel, 2005. "Sabotaging Potential Rivals," CESifo Working Paper Series 1500, CESifo.
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