Participation in deterministic contests

Ron Siegel

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 3, 588-592

Abstract: This paper considers participation in deterministic contests for m≥1 identical prizes, which employ an auction-like rule to determine the winners. In most papers that investigate such models, participation by precisely m+1 players is associated with players having complete information about their opponents’ characteristics, and participation by more than m+1 players is associated with players having incomplete information about their opponents’ characteristics. I show that incomplete information is in fact neither sufficient nor necessary for participation by more than m+1 players.

Keywords: Deterministic contests; Participation; All-pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.006

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