Contests for status

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 338-363

  Moldovanu, Benny ^a   Sela, Aner ^b   Shi, Xianwen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 34249082368     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518010     Document Type: Article

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