Hybrid All-Pay and Winner-Pay Contests
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In many contests in economic and political life, both all-pay and winner-pay expenditures matter for winning. This paper studies such hybrid contests under symmetry and asymmetry. The symmetric model is very general but still yields a simple closed-form solution. More contestants tend to lead to substitution toward winner-pay investments, and total expenditures are always lower than in the corresponding all-pay contest. With a biased decision process and two contestants, the favored contestant wins with a higher likelihood, chooses less winner-pay investments, and contributes more to total expenditures. An endogenous bias that maximizes total expenditures disfavors the high-valuation contestant but still makes her the more likely one to win.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 31 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Series | University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online) |
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Number | 17-20 |
ISSN | 1601-2461 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - rent-seeking, lobbying, influence activities, multiple influence channels, producer theory, C72, D24, D72, D74
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