Competition over More Than One Prize

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 276-289

  Clark, Derek J ^a   Riis, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Found Res in Econ and Bus Admin   (Norway)

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