The specification of the probability functions in Tullock's rent-seeking contest

Economics Letters

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-61

  Kooreman, Peter ^a   Schoonbeek, Lambert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Probability to win; Rent seeking contest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031286251     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00131-6     Document Type: Article

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