Unique equilibrium in rent-seeking contests with a continuum of types

被引:23
作者
Ewerhart, Christian [1 ]
机构
[1] Dept Econ, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
关键词
Rent-seeking; Private information; Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium; Existence; Uniqueness; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.019
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
It is shown that rent-seeking contests with continuous and independent type distributions possess a unique pure-strategy Nash equilibrium. (C) 2014 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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页码:115 / 118
页数:4
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