The incentive effect of a handicap
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Keywords
Handicap; Effort Incentive; Tournament; Monotone likelihood ratio Property;All these keywords.
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- D0 - Microeconomics - - General
- C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
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