Lim, Wooyoung; Matros, Alexander - In: Games and Economic Behavior 67 (2009) 2, pp. 584-597
We study Tullock's (1980) n-player contest when each player has an independent probability 0 < p [less-than-or-equals, slant] 1 of participating. A unique symmetric equilibrium is found for any n and p and its properties are analyzed. In particular, we show that for a fixed n > 2 individual equilibrium spending as a function of p is single-peaked and satisfies a single-crossing property for any two different numbers of potential players. However, total equilibrium spending is...</p>