When will the Range of Prizes in Tournaments Increase in the Noise or in the Number of Players?

DOI10.1142/S0219198903000957MaRDI QIDQ4474569zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yigal Gerchak, Qi-Ming He

Publication date 12 July 2004

Published in International Game Theory Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219198903000957

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric equilibriumtournament additive noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-person games, (n>2) (91A06) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 605729 (Why is no real title available?)
• Comparative Statics of Contests and Rent-Seeking Games
• Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics.

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