Rent-seeking contests with independent private values
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Keywords
Rent seeking; conflict; independent private valuations; first-order stochastic dominance; mean-preserving spread.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2010-06-26 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-GTH-2010-06-26 (Game Theory)
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