An alternative interpretation of random noise in rank-order tournaments

Andrei Barbos

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 121, issue 2, 326-329

Abstract: We propose an alternative interpretation of additive random noise from the canonical framework of Lazear and Rosen (1981) amenable to applications where players do observe their final outputs at the time when inputs are chosen. This interpretation is suitable to model situations where participants do not know the precise distribution of the population from which their opponents are drawn. The variant of the model that we define is strategically equivalent to that in Lazear and Rosen (1981).

Keywords: Contests; Head starts; Additive random noise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.030

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