Essays on lottery contests : theory and experiments

This thesis presents four studies on a variety of lottery contests. A contest is a game in which players incur irreversible expenditure of costly resources to win some valuable reward. The contest success function, which maps the resource investments into corresponding success probabilities, is the...

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Main Author: Mukherjee, Anwesha
Published: University of East Anglia 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.753940