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

DOI10.1287/OPRE.1120.1091zbMATH Open1291.91034OpenAlexW2129400291MaRDI QIDQ4904585FDOQ4904585

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

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zbMATH Keywords

tournamentsnegative skewprize structureranking games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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