Gaining advantage by winning contests

DOI10.1007/S10058-020-00229-0MaRDI QIDQ2218545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Derek J. Clark, Tore Nilssen, Jan Yngve Sand

Publication date 15 January 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-020-00229-0

zbMATH Keywords

budget divisioncontesteffort incentiveswin advantage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) Games in extensive form (91A18)

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• The non-cooperative equilibria of a trading economy with complete markets and consistent prices
• The optimal multi-stage contest
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