Relative difference contest success function

DOI10.1007/s11238-014-9425-4zbMath1377.91008MaRDI QIDQ2353585

Carmen Beviá, Luis C. Corchon

Publication date: 15 July 2015

Published in: Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-014-9425-4

zbMATH Keywords

Nash equilibrium; contest; contest success functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91A10: Noncooperative games

91A05: 2-person games

91A06: (n)-person games, (n>2)

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