Contractual Incentive Provision and Commitment in Rent-Seeking Contests
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Keywords
Contest; First-Mover Advantage; Commitment; Wage Contract;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIC-2006-03-11 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2006-03-11 (Positive Political Economics)
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