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Goods or resource contests?

Kolmar, Martin

In: Public Choice, 2007, vol. 131, no. 3-4, p. 491-499

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    Titel
    • Goods or resource contests?
    Autor
    • Kolmar, Martin. Institute for Empirical Economics and Economic Policy, University of St. Gallen, Varnbüelstrasse 14, CH-9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Dokumententyp
    • Postprint
    Sprache
    • Englisch
    Veröffentlicht in
    • Public Choice, 2007, vol. 131, no. 3-4, p. 491-499. Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com
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    OAI-PMH-ID
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:313382
    Summary
    In this paper we analyze the optimal mix between appropriative and defensive activities for goods (goods contest) and appropriative and defensive activities for resources (resource contest). We show that goods contests are qualitatively different from resource contests. It turns out that for plausible cases the resource contest is dominated by the goods contest in the sense that investments are only positive in the latter