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The Multi-Player Performance-Enhancing Drug Game

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  • Kjetil K Haugen
  • Tamás Nepusz
  • Andrea Petróczi

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This paper extends classical work on economics of doping into a multi-player game setting. Apart from being among the first papers formally formulating and analysing a multi-player doping situation, we find interesting results related to different types of Nash-equilibria (NE). Based mainly on analytic results, we claim at least two different NE structures linked to the choice of prize functions. Linear prize functions provide NEs characterised by either everyone or nobody taking drugs, while non-linear prize functions lead to qualitatively different NEs with significantly more complex predictive characteristics.

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  • Kjetil K Haugen & Tamás Nepusz & Andrea Petróczi, 2013. "The Multi-Player Performance-Enhancing Drug Game," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(5), pages 1-7, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0063306
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063306
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