Testing Rosen's sequential elimination tournament model: Incentives and player performance in professional tennis

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-303

  Gilsdorf, Keith F ^a   Sukhatme, Vasant A ^b  

^a AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation methods; Elimination tournaments; Incentives; Men's professional tennis; Player performances

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649097810     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: 15527794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002507306790     Document Type: Article

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