Reply to Gordon Tullock

Rejoinder to Gordon Tullock

Mixed equilibria in Tullock contests

Any symmetric mixed-strategy equilibrium in a Tullock contest with intermediate values of the decisiveness parameter (“ 2)hascountablyinfinitelymanymasspoints.Allprobabilityweightisconcentratedonthosemasspoints, whichhavethezerobidastheirsolepointofaccumulation.Withcontestantsrandomizingoveranon− convexset, thereisacostofbeinghalfhearted, whichisabsentfromboththelotterycontestandtheall−payaucti...

Reply to “Comment on ‘Existence of internal modes of sine-Gordon kinks’ ”

In this reply to the comment by C. R. Willis, we show, by quoting his own statements, that the simulations reported in his original work with Boesch Phys. Rev. B 42, 229

Outcomes and Strategy Choices in Tullock Contests

We explore the relationship between the choice of the strategy space and outcomes in Tullock contests. In particular, in a framework where one of the contest’s participants moves …rst, we show that there is an equilibrium where this individual wins the contest with probability one. We also show that not only the nature of the outcome changes (e.g., who wins the contest) with the choice of the s...

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