Unique equilibrium in rent-seeking contests with a continuum of types

Christian Ewerhart

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 1, 115-118

Abstract: It is shown that rent-seeking contests with continuous and independent type distributions possess a unique pure-strategy Nash equilibrium.

Keywords: Rent-seeking; Private information; Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium; Existence; Uniqueness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D7 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.019

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