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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 25, 2019 erstellt
Description:
This paper contributes to the literature that examines the effects of disclosing the actual number of bidders in contests with stochastic entry by considering resource constraint. We study an all-pay auction with complete information. The auction entails one prize and $n$ potential bidders. Each potential bidder has an exogenous probability of participation and faces an exogenous bid cap. It is shown that the contest organizer prefers fully concealing the information about the number of participating bidders. We extend the result to a case with endogenous entry