Tournament incentives and match outcomes in women's professional tennis

Applied Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2405-2412

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

^a AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCENTIVE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SPORT;

EID: 51249113211     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600949512     Document Type: Article

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