Rank-Order Tournaments and Selection

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-191

  Clark, Derek J ^a   Riis, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Rank order tournament; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345880784     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02340174     Document Type: Article

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