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Matthias Dahm's web site

  • About
  • Bio & CV
  • Research
    • industrial & health economics
      • auctions & multiple sourcing
      • health economics
    • public & political economics
      • lobbying
      • voting
      • country formation
    • contest theory
      • affirmative action
      • endogenous contest
      • strategic analysis
      • contest success functions
      • winner-pay contests
  • Publications
  • Recent papers

all-pay auction

Research by keywords

May 11, 2015May 29, 2015 ~ matthiasdahm

Semi-Targeted All-Pay Auctions: A Partial Exclusion Principle

April 19, 2015April 24, 2019 ~ matthiasdahm

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018, DOI

The most recent unpublished version is here: SemiTargetedAllPay (September 2018).

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This paper studies the effects of a specific affirmative action policy in complete information all-pay auctions when players differ in ability. Continue reading →

Rent Seeking and Rent Dissipation: A Neutrality Result

April 4, 2015May 30, 2015 ~ matthiasdahm

with J Alcalde, Journal of Public Economics, 2010, DOI

We consider rent seeking contests between at least two agents who might value the prize differently. Continue reading →

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