2012/01/06 by Ignacio Palacios‐Huerta · 2 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #Economic theories and models #Game Theory and Applications #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Tournament #Sequence (biology) #Mathematical economics #Morse code #Competition (biology) #Order (exchange) #Economics #Graphics #Mathematics #Combinatorics #Microeconomics #Computer science #Biology #Ecology #Genetics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00435.x
openalex publication_date 2012/01/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27
The Prouhet‐Thue‐Morse sequence occurs as the answer to various apparently unrelated questions in combinatorics, differential geometry, number theory, physics, music, turtle graphics, and other areas in the natural sciences. This paper shows that it can also be the answer to an important question in economics: how should the order of a sequential tournament competition between two agents be determined to make it fair? ( JEL D00, Z00)