Payoff Shares in Two-Player Contests

In imperfectly discriminating contests with symmetric valuations, equilibrium payoffs are positive shares of the value of the prize. In contrast to a bargaining situation, players’ shares sum to less than one because a residual share of the value is lost due to rent dissipation. In this paper, we co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Samuel Häfner, Georg Nöldeke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:Games
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/7/3/25