Unifying Contests: from Noisy Ranking to Ratio-Form Contest Success Functions
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- Fu, Qiang & Lu, Jingfeng, 2007. "Unifying Contests: from Noisy Ranking to Ratio-Form Contest Success Functions," MPRA Paper 6617, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Multi-Winner Contest; Contest Success Function; Noisy Ranking;All these keywords.
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- C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-UPT-2008-01-12 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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