Stochastic Contests with Linex Utility Functions
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Game Theory; Linear-Exponential Utility; Stochastic Contests; Winner-Takes-All;All these keywords.
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- C46 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Specific Distributions
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