Purification and roulette wheels

Economic Theory

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 255-272

  Greinecker, Michael ^a   Podczeck, Konrad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Games with incomplete information; Purification; Roulette wheels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939871300     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-014-0815-1     Document Type: Article

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