Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance,
Stockholm School of Economics
No 388: Information in Conflicts
Karl Wärneryd ()
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Karl Wärneryd: Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: P.O. Box 6501, S-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: We consider a two-player contest for a prize of common but uncertain value. We show that less resources are spent in equilibrium if one party is privately informed about the value of the prize than if either both agents are informed or neither agent is informed. Furthermore, the uninformed agent is ex ante strictly more likely to win the prize than is the informed agent.
Keywords: Conflict; contest; asymmetric information; all-pay auction.
17 pages, June 19, 2000
- Published as
- Karl Wärneryd, (2003), 'Information in Conflicts', Journal of Economic Theory, vol 110, pages 121-136
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