Enhancing effort supply with prize-augmenting entry fees : theory and experiments

Entry fees are widely observed in contests. We study the effect of a prize-augmenting entry fee on expected total effort in an all-pay auction setting where the contestants' abilities are private information. An entry fee reduces equilibrium entry but can enhance the entrants' effort suppl...

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Main Authors: Hammond, Robert G., Liu, Bin, Lu, Jingfeng, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151228
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English