Disequilibrium Play in Tennis
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tennis; games; Nash equilibrium; Minimax theorem; constant sum games; mixed strategies; dynamic directional games; binary Markov games; dynamic programming; structural estimation; muscle memory;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2021-03-29 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2021-03-29 (Game Theory)
- NEP-SPO-2021-03-29 (Sports & Economics)
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