Rent seeking with regretful agents: Theory and experiment
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All-pay auctions; Regret; Experiment; Rent-seeking;JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
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