Risk-Bearing in a Winner-Take-All Contest
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- Rtischev, Dimitry, 2008. "Risk-bearing in a winner-take-all contest," MPRA Paper 23302, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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contest; tournament; relative evaluation; risk;All these keywords.
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- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
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