Sabotaging Teammates and Rent Dissipation in a Rent-Seeking Contest

Ryusuke Shinohara

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2023, vol. 179, issue 2, 288-319

Abstract: This study examines a rent-seeking contest among teams in which members can sabotage their teammates.We demonstrate how rent dissipation differs, with and without intra-team sabotage options. We find that an increased number of teams always increases rent dissipation, with and without sabotage options. In contrast, rent dissipation nonmonotonically changes with the number of team members. These changes in rent dissipation may contribute to alleviating efficiency losses in real-world contests.

Keywords: intra-team sabotage; rent-seeking contests; rent dissipation; teams; effective effort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D72 D74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1628/jite-2023-0028

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