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Field Evidence. Overview. Contests Lotteries: r = 1 Experimental Investigation of Lotteries Application of Lotteries to Public Goods provision. Field Evidence. Landry, Lange, List, Price, and Rupp (QJE, 2006): ''Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity:
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Overview • Contests • Lotteries: r = 1 • Experimental Investigation of Lotteries • Application of Lotteries to Public Goods provision
Field Evidence Landry, Lange, List, Price, and Rupp (QJE, 2006): ''Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment.''
Experimental Evidence Lange, List, and Price (International Economic Review, 2007) “Using Lotteries to Finance Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence”
Application of Lotteries • Public Goods provision: Choose the appropriate PRIZE!
All-pay Auctions: Complete Information • All-pay auctions: r = oo Baye, Kovenock, and De Vries (AER 1993): “Rigging the lobbying process: An application of the all-pay auction.”
Baye, Kovenock, and De Vries (AER 1993) • Motivation
Baye, Kovenock, and De Vries (AER 1993) • Background:
Baye, Kovenock, and De Vries (AER 1993) • Motivation:
Baye, Kovenock, and De Vries (AER 1993) • The Model:
Baye, Kovenock, and De Vries (AER 1993) • Preliminary results: Exclusion principle
The Model • n > 2 lobbyists • Politician maximizes
The Model • Lobbyist i’s payoff
The Lobbying Game • No pure-strategy NE
The Lobbying Game • There exists a mixed-strategy NE
Results • Theorem 1 and Lemma 1 give