Rent-seeking contest when the prize incr
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Tai-Yeong Chung
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Article
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1996
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Springer US
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English
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The objective of this article is to investigate contests in which efforts are productive. Tullock's standard rent-seeking model is extended by making the rent itself increase with the aggregate efforts. A positive externality is thereby introduced into the contest, because a contender's private effo