Under standard assumptions about players'cost functions, we show that a Tullock contest with asymmetric information has a pure strategy equilibrium. Next we study Tullock contests in which players have a common value and a common state-independent linear cost function. A two-player contest in...

We show that when firms have asymmetric information about the market demand and theirs costs, a (Bayesian) Cournot equilibrium in pure strategies may not exist, or be unique. In fact, we are able to construct surprisingly simple and robust examples of duopolies with these features. However, we...

We show that even in very simple oligopolies with di¤erential information a (Bayesian) Cournot equilibrium in pure strategies may not exist, or be unique. However, we ?nd su¢ cient conditions for existence, and for uniqueness, of Cournot equilibrium in a certain class of industries. More...