In a contest group - specific public goods we consider the effect that managing an interest group has on the rent … dissipation and the total expected payoffs of the contest. While in the first group, there is a central planner determining its … members' expenditure in the contest, in the second group there are two different possibilities: either all the members are …

We consider a two group contest over a group specific public good where each member of a group has a different benefit … contest, or alternatively, the returns to effort are decreasing as reflected in the contest success function. In the first …

stage, parties invest to secure rights by participating in a rent-seeking contest. In the second stage, parties decide …