Arham Choudhury wrote:
Can someone clarify this situation for me or direct me
to material that may help answer this question?
Questions very similar to the ones you asked are examined in the following paper:
Skaperdas, S and Grofman, B (1995) Modeling Negative Campaigning, American
Fred Foldvary wrote:
MVT posits a bell-shaped distribution of political views.
No, it doesn't. A uniform distribution works just as well.
Comes a third vendor. If he is in the center, each now gets 1/3 the sales.
If one vendor moves just a bit away, he gets 1/2 while the others get 1/4.
Fabio Rojas wrote:
I'd say economics has a pretty decent turn around time.
The following are data from a recent paper by Glenn Ellison of MIT (JPE, October
2002). The data are average times (measured in months) between initial submission and
acceptance at various economics journals in the
