The Multi-Player Performance-Enhancing Drug Game

This paper extends classical work on economics of doping into a multi-player game setting. Apart from being among the first papers formally formulating and analysing a multi-player doping situation, we find interesting results related to different types of Nash-equilibria (NE). Based mainly on analy...

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Autores principales: Haugen, Kjetil K., Nepusz, Tamás, Petróczi, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3656928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063306
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description This paper extends classical work on economics of doping into a multi-player game setting. Apart from being among the first papers formally formulating and analysing a multi-player doping situation, we find interesting results related to different types of Nash-equilibria (NE). Based mainly on analytic results, we claim at least two different NE structures linked to the choice of prize functions. Linear prize functions provide NEs characterised by either everyone or nobody taking drugs, while non-linear prize functions lead to qualitatively different NEs with significantly more complex predictive characteristics.
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spelling pubmed-36569282013-05-20 The Multi-Player Performance-Enhancing Drug Game Haugen, Kjetil K. Nepusz, Tamás Petróczi, Andrea PLoS One Research Article This paper extends classical work on economics of doping into a multi-player game setting. Apart from being among the first papers formally formulating and analysing a multi-player doping situation, we find interesting results related to different types of Nash-equilibria (NE). Based mainly on analytic results, we claim at least two different NE structures linked to the choice of prize functions. Linear prize functions provide NEs characterised by either everyone or nobody taking drugs, while non-linear prize functions lead to qualitatively different NEs with significantly more complex predictive characteristics. Public Library of Science 2013-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3656928/ /pubmed/23691018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063306 Text en © 2013 Haugen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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