Modifying Variability and Correlations in Winner-Take-All Contests

DOI10.1287/OPRE.1030.0098MaRDI QIDQ3637434zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anil Gaba, Ilia Tsetlin, Robert L. Winkler

Publication date 10 July 2009

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2caf7030f12755f14fee9f572bda121063579988

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory for games (91A35)

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• The promise of pick-the-winners contests for producing crowd probability forecasts
• Fluctuations of martingales and winning probabilities of game contestants
• Winner-take-all games: the strategic optimisation of rank
• Inferring relative ability from winning probability in multientrant contests
• The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments
• When to Release Feedback in a Dynamic Tournament
• The impact of a winner takes all tournament on managers' strategies and asset mispricing
• Strategic choice of variability in multiround contests and contests with handicaps
• The attraction of uncertainty: interactions between skill and levels of uncertainty in market-entry games

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