Revenue Sharing, Competitive Balance and the Contest Success Function

German Economic Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-273

  Runkel, Marco ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitive balance; Contest success function; Revenue sharing

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; PROFITABILITY; SPORT;

EID: 79960024758     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2011.00530.x     Document Type: Review

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