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All-Pay Auctions with Endogenous Rewards

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  • Olivier Bos
  • Martin Ranger

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This paper examines a perfectly discriminating contest (all-pay auction) with two asymmetric players. Valuations are endogenous and depend on the effort each player invests in the contest. The shape of the valuation function is common knowledge and differs between the contestants. Some key properties of R&D races, lobbying activity and sport contests are captured by this framework. Once the unique equilibrium in mixed strategies analyzed, we derive a closed form of the expected expenditure of both players. We characterize the expected expenditure by means of incomplete Beta functions. We focus on unordered valuations.

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  • Olivier Bos & Martin Ranger, 2010. "All-Pay Auctions with Endogenous Rewards," Working Paper Series in Economics 46, University of Cologne, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    All-pay auctions; contests;

    JEL classification:

    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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