Suspense: Dynamic incentives in sports contests

Economic Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 534, 2009, Pages 24-46

  Chan, William ^a   Courty, Pascal ^b   Hao, Li ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCENTIVE; MODELING; SPORT;

EID: 57749092654     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02204.x     Document Type: Article

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