When does division matter? Revisiting the optimal contest architecture

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2023.111233MaRDI QIDQ6093773zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mustafa Yildirim

Publication date 12 September 2023

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111233

zbMATH Keywords

contestsgrand contestmaximum total effortsubcontests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10)

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