Unique equilibrium in rent-seeking contests with a continuum of types
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Keywords
Rent-seeking; private information; pure-strategy Nash equilibrium; existence; uniqueness;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GTH-2014-06-02 (Game Theory)
- NEP-HPE-2014-06-02 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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