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Mixed-strategy play in single-stage first-price all-pay auctions with symmetric players

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  • Rapoport, Amnon
  • Amaldoss, Wilfred

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Volume (Year): 54 (2004)
Issue (Month): 4 (August)
Pages: 585-607

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