Who goes first? Strategic Delay and Learning by Waiting
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This paper considers a “war of attrition” game in which agents learn about an uncertain state of the world through private signals and from their peers. I provide existence and uniqueness results for a class of equilibria that satisfy a “full-participation” condition, and show that asymmetries in the distribution of information can lead to excessive stopping and an oversupply of information relative to the social optimum.
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