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Submission Fees in Risk-Taking Contests
Mark Whitmeyer
This paper investigates stochastic continuous time contests with a twist: the designer requires that contest participants incur some cost to submit their entries. When the designer…
Search and Competition with Flexible Investigations
Vasudha Jain, Mark Whitmeyer
We modify the standard model of price competition with horizontally differentiated products, imperfect information, and search frictions by allowing consumers to flexibly acquire i…
Persuasion Produces the (Diamond) Paradox
Mark Whitmeyer
This paper extends the sequential search model of Wolinsky (1986) by allowing firms to choose how much match value information to disclose to visiting consumers. This restores the…
In Simple Communication Games, When Does Ex Ante Fact-Finding Benefit the Receiver?
Mark Whitmeyer
Always, if the number of states is equal to two; or if the number of receiver actions is equal to two and i. The number of states is three or fewer, or ii. The game is cheap talk,…
Competing to Persuade a Rationally Inattentive Agent
Vasudha Jain, Mark Whitmeyer
Firms strategically disclose product information in order to attract consumers, but recipients often find it costly to process all of it, especially when products have complex feat…
Mixtures of Mean-Preserving Contractions
Joseph Whitmeyer, Mark Whitmeyer
Given a purely atomic probability measure with support on n points, P, any mean-preserving contraction (mpc) of P, Q, with support on m > n points is a mixture of mpcs of P, each w…