Optimal contest design for simple agents

EC 2014 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 913-930

  Ghosh, Arpita ^a   Kleinberg, Robert ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

contest design; user generated content

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

BEST RESPONSE; CONTEST DESIGNS; EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; INCREASING FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WINNER TAKE ALLS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903137921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2600057.2602875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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