Gambling in contests

DOI10.1016/j.jet.2013.07.005zbMath1296.91133OpenAlexW2076211138MaRDI QIDQ405542

Christian Seel, Philipp Strack

Publication date: 5 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/64725684/Seel_2013_Gambling_in_contests.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

contestsdiscontinuous gamesrelative performance payrisk-taking behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-person games, (n>2) (91A06) Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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Continuous Time Contests with Private Information ⋮ Gambling in contests with heterogeneous loss constraints ⋮ A Mean Field Competition ⋮ Submission costs in risk-taking contests ⋮ Constrained contests with a continuum of battles ⋮ Deadlines in stochastic contests ⋮ GAMBLING IN CONTESTS WITH REGRET ⋮ Competitive real options under private information ⋮ On Skorokhod embeddings and Poisson equations ⋮ Gambling in contests modelled with diffusions ⋮ Finite, integrable and bounded time embeddings for diffusions ⋮ Gambling in contests with random initial law ⋮ Reward Design in Risk-Taking Contests

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