Rent, risk, and replication
preference adaptation in winner take all markets
Rent, risk, and replication: preference adaptation in winner-take-all markets
Abstract: "We study the evolution of an economy where agents who are heterogeneous with respect to risk attitudes can either earn a certain income or enter a risky rent-seeking contest. We assume that agents behave rationally given their preferences,...
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Abstract: "We study the evolution of an economy where agents who are heterogeneous with respect to risk attitudes can either earn a certain income or enter a risky rent-seeking contest. We assume that agents behave rationally given their preferences, but that the population distribution of preferences evolves over time in response to material pay-offs. We show that, in particular, initial distributions with full support converge to stationary states where all types may still be present, risk lovers specialize in rent-seeking, and the available rents are perfectly dissipated." (author's abstract)
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