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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Wednesday, April 17, 2019
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Baxter B125
Correlated Large Contests
Juuso Välimäki, Professor, Department of Economics, Aalto University,

Abstract: We investigate the symmetric equilibria of contests with correlated private values when the number of contestants and/or prizes is large. We show that the equilibria are often inefficient in the sense that contestants with lower values win over contestants with higher valuations.

Written with Chang Koo Chi and Pauli Murto.

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