First-mover advantage in round-robin tournaments

DOI10.1007/s00355-017-1027-yzbMath1392.91096OpenAlexW3123120905MaRDI QIDQ2628712

Aner Sela, Reut Megidish, Alex Krumer

Publication date: 2 June 2017

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/Econ/Workingpapers/1509.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

first-mover advantageround-robin tournamentssubgame perfection equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) Multistage and repeated games (91A20)

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