Equivalence of optimal noisy-ranking contests and Tullock contests

DOI10.1016/J.JMATECO.2011.10.005zbMath1231.91050OpenAlexW2031803084MaRDI QIDQ660104

Yohan Pelosse

Publication date: 25 January 2012

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.10.005

zbMATH Keywords

contest success functionprobabilistic choiceequivalent contests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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