Reexamining Efficient Rent-Seeking in Laboratory Markets

Jason Shogren and Kyung Baik

Public Choice, 1991, vol. 69, issue 1, 69-79

Abstract: Given E. Millner and M. Pratt's (1989) finding of behavior inconsistent with theory, the authors reexamine efficient rent-seeking in experimental markets. They show that (1) when r = 3, no Nash equilibrium exists and, therefore, behavior has no theoretical benchmark to judge consistency and (2) when r = 1, with a new experimental design utilizing an explicit expected payoff matrix, rent-seeking behavior is consistent with both Nash equilibrium and dissipation hypotheses. Copyright 1991 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1991
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