Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5058081 Economics Letters 2016 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

•We study effort-maximizing disclosure policy of the number of entrants in contests.•We adopt a setting of imperfectly discriminatory contests with stochastic entry.•We follow a Bayesian persuasion approach.•For concave characteristic functions, full disclosure is optimal.•For convex characteristic functions, full concealment is optimal.

Following a Bayesian persuasion approach, we establish that full disclosure (resp. concealment) is the contest organizer's effort-maximizing policy for disclosing the number of actual contestants if the characteristic function of the imperfectly discriminatory contest technology is strictly concave (resp. convex).

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