Optimally biased contests with draws

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2023.111076MaRDI QIDQ6093658zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 12 September 2023

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111076

zbMATH Keywords

biasescontestcontest designdrawsheadstarts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) Mechanism design theory (91B03)

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