Testing contest theory: evidence from best-of-three tennis matches

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 689-692

  Malueg, David A ^a   Yates, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

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EID: 77955140572     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00021     Document Type: Article

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