The first-order approach in rank-order tournaments

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2011.02.013MaRDI QIDQ553384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Oliver Gürtler

Publication date 27 July 2011

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2011.02.013

zbMATH Keywords

first-order approachrank-order tournamentsconcave objective function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of game theory (91A80)

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