Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants’ investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost differences in heterogeneous interactions, however, reduce equilibrium expenditures. Evidence from lab experiments for treatments with homogeneous participants is qualitatively in line with the theoretical prediction. The effect of cost differences on expenditures is positive rather than negative, however, in all heterogeneous treatments.

• Publication year

  2013

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  Social Science Research Network

• Publication date

  2013-10-31

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.2139/ssrn.2348018
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