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Wärneryd, Karl () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)

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We consider a two-player contest for a prize of common but uncertain value. We show that less resources are spent in equilibrium if one party is privately informed about the value of the prize than if either both agents are informed or neither agent is informed. Furthermore, the uninformed agent is ex ante strictly more likely to win the prize than is the informed agent.

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Paper provided by Stockholm School of Economics in its series Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance with number 388.

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Length: 17 pages
Date of creation: 19 Jun 2000
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Economic Theory, 2003, pages 121-136.
Handle: RePEc:hhs:hastef:0388

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Keywords: Conflict; contest; asymmetric information; all-pay auction.;

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C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Auctions
D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information

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