Discrimination in contests: a survey

DOI10.1007/S10058-016-0186-0MaRDI QIDQ726620zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan

Publication date 12 July 2016

Published in Review of Economic Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-016-0186-0

zbMATH Keywords

all-pay-auctioncontest designcontest success functioncovert and head starts-discriminationdirectlotteryovertrevenue maximization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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