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Exclusion in all-pay auctions

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  • Ian Gale
  • Mark Stegeman

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A description of a procedure for increasing the seller's expected revenue in an all-pay auction, specifically in the case of lobbying, where a politician is typically assumed to award the political prize to the highest bidder.

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  • Ian Gale & Mark Stegeman, 1994. "Exclusion in all-pay auctions," Working Papers (Old Series) 9401, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
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    3. Franke, Jörg & Kanzow, Christian & Leininger, Wolfgang & Schwartz, Alexandra, 2014. "Lottery versus all-pay auction contests: A revenue dominance theorem," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 116-126.
    4. Bertoletti, Paolo, 2016. "Reserve prices in all-pay auctions with complete information," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(3), pages 446-453.

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