• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Revenue ranking of optimally biased contests: The case of two players
  • Contributor: Ewerhart, Christian [Author]
  • Published: Zurich: University of Zurich, Department of Economics, 2017
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-135994
  • Keywords: heterogeneous valuations ; Tullock contest ; Nash equilibrium ; discrimination ; J71 ; D72 ; C72
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  • Description: It is shown that the equilibrium in the asymmetric Tullock contest is unique for parameter values r È 2. This allows proving a revenue ranking result saying that a revenue-maximizing designer capable of biasing the contest always prefers a contest technology with higher accuracy.
  • Access State: Open Access