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Competition on Many Fronts: A Stackelberg Signalling Equilibrium

Abstract

A single economic agent controls a variety of activities. Each activity is associated with a privately observed piece of information. The information is relevant to the actions he will take in this activity, and to the vulnerability of this activity to attack by another agent. Actions should be chosen so as partially to hide the private information, as well as to be efficient in the productive sense. This paper gives a characterization of the optimal association of actions to activities based on the private information available. Some applications are discussed.

Additional Information

Revised: Original dated to 1986. Support from the National Science Foundation, grant numbers IST-8310118 and IST-8507291 and Commissariat du Plan is gratefully acknowledged. We thank the referees for their helpful and detailed comments. Published as Green, Jerry, and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Competition on many fronts: a Stackelberg signaling equilibrium." Games and Economic Behavior 2, no. 3 (1990): 247-272.

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Competition on many fronts: A Stackelberg signaling equilibrium

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81245
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NSF
IST-8310118
NSF
IST-8507291
Commissariat du Plan

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Social Science Working Paper
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664