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O'Sullivan, Paul (2015) Asymmetric Doping Effects and Sanctions in Sporting Contests. Working Paper. National University of Ireland Maynooth. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This paper analyses a one-shot game where, prior to a contest, two athletes simultaneously decide whether to engage in doping that is not certain to be detected. Doping is assumed to have at least as great a proportional effect on a naturally weaker athlete’s win probability. Given an explicit contest success function, the paper derives an optimal sanction scheme, where sanctions are identically proportional to prizes, sufficient to always induce a no-doping equilibrium. In comparison to previous papers, the winner’s optimal sanction, expressed in terms of talent and doping levels and doping costs, may be lower for all detection probabilities.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Asymmetric Doping Effects; Sanctions; Sporting Contests; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting |
| Item ID: | 6491 |
| Depositing User: | Ms Sandra Doherty |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2015 10:09 |
| Publisher: | National University of Ireland Maynooth |
| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/6491 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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