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Whose Bias?
Vasudha Jain, Mark Whitmeyer
Law enforcement acquires costly evidence with the aim of securing the conviction of a defendant, who is convicted if a decision-maker's belief exceeds a certain threshold. Either l…
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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…
econ.TH2021
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…