The incentive effect of coarsening the competition structure in a tournament

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2014.09.028MaRDI QIDQ2345261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sam-Ho Lee

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.09.028

zbMATH Keywords

coarseningtournamentlog-concave densityincentive effect

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