Two-player asymmetric contests with ratio-form contest success functions

Economic Inquiry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 679-689

  Baik, Kyung Hwan ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

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EID: 8344267491     PISSN: 00952583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ei/cbh089     Document Type: Article

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