Biased contests for symmetric players

DOI10.1016/j.geb.2016.02.003zbMath1393.91078OpenAlexW2284350064MaRDI QIDQ2357814

Dmitry Ryvkin, Mikhail Drugov

Publication date: 20 June 2017

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/75378/1/MPRA_paper_75378.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

predictive powerwinner's effortaggregate effortbiased contestbiased contest success function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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