@techreport{27a71cd9985842f5a2d20db4e3f00961,
title = "Hybrid All-Pay and Winner-Pay Contests",
abstract = "In many contests in economic and political life, both all-pay and winner-pay expenditures matter for winning. This paper studies such hybrid contests under symmetry and asymmetry. The symmetric model is very general but still yields a simple closed-form solution. More contestants tend to lead to substitution toward winner-pay investments, and total expenditures are always lower than in the corresponding all-pay contest. With a biased decision process and two contestants, the favored contestant wins with a higher likelihood, chooses less winner-pay investments, and contributes more to total expenditures. An endogenous bias that maximizes total expenditures disfavors the high-valuation contestant but still makes her the more likely one to win.",
keywords = "Faculty of Social Sciences, rent-seeking, lobbying, influence activities, multiple influence channels, producer theory, C72, D24, D72, D74, rent-seeking, lobbying, influence activities, multiple influence channels, producer theory, C72, D24, D72, D74",
author = "Johan Lagerl{\"o}f",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
series = "University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online)",
number = "17-20",
type = "WorkingPaper",
}