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An all-pay auction with a pure-strategy equilibrium

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  • Amegashie, J. Atsu, 2001. "An all-pay auction with a pure-strategy equilibrium," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 70(1), pages 79-82, January.
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    2. Amegashie, J.A., 2002. "Burning Out in Sequential Elimination Contests," Working Papers 2002-8, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance.
    3. J. Atsu Amegashie & Edward Kutsoati, 2005. "Rematches in Boxing and Other Sporting Events," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 6(4), pages 401-411, November.
    4. BOS, Olivier & RANGER, Martin, 2009. "All-pay auctions with endogenous rewards," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2009059, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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    6. Olivier Bos & Martin Ranger, 2014. "All-Pay Auctions with Polynomial Rewards," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 115-116, pages 361-377.
    7. Subhasish M. Chowdhury, 2017. "The All‐Pay Auction with Nonmonotonic Payoff," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 84(2), pages 375-390, October.
    8. Duvocelle, Benoit & Mourmans, Niels, 2022. "Contests with discontinuous payoffs," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
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