TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morath,Florian
AU  - Münster, Johannes
TI  - Information acquisition in conflicts
AV  - HB119 ECO 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Heildelberg
PB  - Springer
KW  - Information acquisition
KW  - Conflicts
N2  - This paper considers incentives for information acquisition ahead of conflicts. First, we characterize the (unique) equilibrium of the all-pay auction between two players with one-sided asymmetric information where one player has private information about his valuation. Then, we use our results to study information acquisition prior to an all-pay auction. If the decision to acquire information is observable, but not the information received, one-sided asymmetric information can occur endogenously in equilibrium. Moreover, the cut-off values of the cost of information that determine equilibrium information acquisition are higher than those in the first best. Thus, information acquisition is excessive. In contrast, with open or covert information acquisition, the equilibrium cut-off values are as in the first best
UR  - 10.1007/s00199-012-0710-6
ER  -