Size and distribution of prizes and efforts in contests

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Epstein, Gil S ^a,b   Nitzan, Shmuel ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IZA ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contests; Distribution; Dstakes; Efforts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859822434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15452921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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