The multi-player performance-enhancing drug game.
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23691018.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0063306 and PMC identifier 3656928.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Doping in Sports
- Models, Psychological