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Contests with a stochastic number of players. / Lim, Wooyoung ; Matros, Alexander.
In: Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 67, No. 2, 11.2009, p. 584-597.

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Lim, W & Matros, A 2009, 'Contests with a stochastic number of players', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 584-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2009.03.012

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Lim, W., & Matros, A. (2009). Contests with a stochastic number of players. Games and Economic Behavior, 67(2), 584-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2009.03.012

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Lim W, Matros A. Contests with a stochastic number of players. Games and Economic Behavior. 2009 Nov;67(2):584-597. doi: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.03.012

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Lim, Wooyoung ; Matros, Alexander. / Contests with a stochastic number of players. In: Games and Economic Behavior. 2009 ; Vol. 67, No. 2. pp. 584-597.

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abstract = "We study Tullock's (1980) n-player contest when each player has an independent probability 0 < p 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 monotonically increasing in p and n. We also demonstrate that ex-post over-dissipation is a feature of the pure-strategy equilibrium in our model. It turns out that if the contest designer can strategically decide whether to reveal the actual number of participating players or not, then the actual number of participants is always revealed.",
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