Risk-aversion and prudence in rent-seeking games |
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Authors: | Nicolas Treich |
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Institution: | 1. Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA-INRA), Toulouse, France
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Abstract: | This paper considers a common n-agent symmetric rent-seeking game. It derives conditions so that risk-aversion and risk always decrease rent-seeking efforts. These conditions hold for any regular contest success function when risk-averse rent-seekers are also prudent. Under n=2, prudence is a necessary and sufficient condition for risk-aversion to decrease rent-seeking efforts compared to risk-neutrality. An intuition for this result is given based on a self-protection model. |
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