Abstract

Rent dissipation measures the social loss in rent-seeking contests and therefore is the main source of interest in the rent-seeking literature. We derive narrow bounds for the amount of rent dissipation in a sequential lottery contest within players and show that the rent dissipation is larger than in the corresponding simultaneous contest. Sequential moves in contests therefore increase the social loss from rent-seeking behavior.

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