Ranking games and gambling: when to quit when you're ahead

DOI10.1287/OPRE.1120.1091MaRDI QIDQ4904585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edward J. Anderson

Publication date 30 January 2013

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8164

zbMATH Keywords

negative skewprize structureranking gamestournaments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other game-theoretic models (91A40) Discrete-time games (91A50) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60) Financial applications of other theories (91G80)

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