The shape of luck and competition in winner‐take‐all tournaments

DOI10.3982/TE3824zbMath1466.91009OpenAlexW3107213187MaRDI QIDQ4992074

Dmitry Ryvkin, Mikhail Drugov

Publication date: 7 June 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3982/te3824

zbMATH Keywords

competitionfailure rateheavy tailstournamentunimodalitystochastic number of playerslog supermodularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10)

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