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ToolsFallucchi, Francesco, Sefton, Martin and Renner, Elke (2013) Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games. European Economic Review, 64. 223–240. ISSN 0014-2921
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Abstract
We investigate the effects of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the share contest a contestant receives a share of the rent equal to her share of rent-seeking expenditures, while in the lottery contest a contestant wins the entire rent with probability equal to her share of rent-seeking expenditures. In share contests average expenditures converge to equilibrium levels when subjects only get feedback about own earnings, and additional feedback about rivals' choices and earnings raises average expenditures. In lottery contests information feedback has an opposite, and even stronger, effect: when subjects only get feedback on own earnings we observe high levels of rent dissipation, usually exceeding the value of the rent, and additional feedback about rivals' choices and earnings has a significant moderating influence on expenditures. In a follow-up treatment we make information feedback endogenous by allowing contestants in a lottery contest to make public or private expenditures. Subjects make the vast majority of expenditures privately and overall excess expenditures are similar to the lottery contest with own feedback.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Open access article under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | contests,rent-seeking,information feedback,learning,experiments |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2016 18:00 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 00:48 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56945 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.09.003 |
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