Uniqueness of equilibrium in two-player asymmetric Tullock contests with intermediate discriminatory power

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2017.07.017zbMath1395.91227OpenAlexW2608997054MaRDI QIDQ1782387

Xin Feng, Jingfeng Lu

Publication date: 20 September 2018

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.07.017

zbMATH Keywords

uniqueness of equilibriumTullock contestsasymmetric playersdiscriminatory powertwo-player contests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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