A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions

Public Choice

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 125-130

  Jia, Hao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contest success functions; Inverse exponential distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449105798     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-007-9242-1     Document Type: Article

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