From Custer to Thermopylae: last stand behavior in multi-stage contests

DOI10.1016/j.geb.2014.06.003zbMath1302.91105OpenAlexW2149475653MaRDI QIDQ485797

Alan Gelder

Publication date: 14 January 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.06.003

zbMATH Keywords

all-pay auctiondynamic contestlast standracewinning momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) Multistage and repeated games (91A20)

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