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We characterize the equilibrium of the all-pay auction with general convex cost of effort and sequential effort choices. We consider a set of n players who are arbitrarily partitioned into a group of players who choose their efforts ?early? and a group of players who choose ?late?. Only the...
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider...
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Perfect information games have a particularly simple structure of equilibria in the associated normal form. For generic such games each of the finitely many connected components of Nash equilibria is contractible. For every perfect information game there is a unique connected and contractible...
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This paper analyses in a simple global games framework welfare effects stemming from different communication strategies of public agencies if strategies of agents are complementary to each other: communication can either be fully transparent, or the agency opaquely publishes only its overall...
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Global games are widely used for equilibrium selection to predict behaviour in complete information games with strategic complementarities. We establish two results on the global game selection. First, we show that it is independent of the payoff functions of the global game embedding, though it...
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The present note analyzes the Simultaneous Ascending Bid Auction with arbitrarily many bidders with decreasing marginal valuations under complete information. We show that the game is solvable by iterated elimination of weakly dominated strategies if the efficient allocation assigns at least one...
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just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …
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This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …
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and individual learning, the key parameter is shown to be the degree of rationality of the learning agents: Learning the … techniques, while the Walras strategy can be shown to be a particular 'low rationality result'. …
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parameters proposed in the related literature are known not to be sharp. Using the theory of random sets, we show that the sharp … be extended to other solution concepts, such as for example correlated equilibrium or rationality and rationalizability …
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