Private-information group contests: best-shot competition

DOI10.1016/j.geb.2016.06.015zbMath1394.91153OpenAlexW2463846540MaRDI QIDQ738941

Stefano Barbieri, David A. Malueg

Publication date: 16 August 2016

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2016.06.015

zbMATH Keywords

private informationbest shotall-pay auctiongroup contest

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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