A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions Jia, Hao 2008, A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions, Public choice, vol. 135, no. 3-4, pp. 125-130, doi: 10.1007/s11127-007-9242-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions Author(s) Jia, Hao orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-8136 Journal name Public choice Volume number 135 Issue number 3-4 Start page 125 End page 130 Total pages 6 Publisher Springer New York LLC Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2008-06 ISSN 0048-5829 1573-7101 Keyword(s) contest success functions inverse exponential distribution Summary This note provides a distribution-based justification for the ratio form of contest success functions (CSFs), in which a player’s success depends positively on her effort relative to that of her opponents. I show that the inverse exponential distribution of the random shocks yields the ratio form. Extending this approach to asymmetric contests, I also derive an asymmetric ratio form of CSFs. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s11127-007-9242-1 Field of Research 150311 Organisational Behaviour HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2007, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30024386 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 01 Mar 2010, 14:48:15 EST Fri, 19 Mar 2010, 10:18:10 EST Wed, 14 Apr 2010, 11:17:50 EST Fri, 16 Apr 2010, 13:11:00 EST Mon, 14 Nov 2011, 11:16:47 EST Mon, 14 Nov 2011, 11:18:01 EST Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 13:32:12 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 14:34:55 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 16:29:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 54 times in TR Web of Science Cited 58 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1455 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 01 Mar 2010, 14:48:15 EST