Allocation rules of indivisible prizes in team contests
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- Hideo Konishi & Nicolas Sahuguet & Benoit Crutzen, 2023. "Allocation Rules of Indivisible Prizes in Team Contests," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 1064, Boston College Department of Economics.
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Contest; Team; Moral hazard;All these keywords.
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- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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