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Increasing Dominance with No Efficiency Effect

I uncover a new force towards increasing dominance. The new effect results from the strategic choice of covariance in races. I assume that players must choose not the amount of resources to spend but how to allocate those resources. I show that the laggard has an incentive to chose a different path from the leader.

Luís M. B. Cabral | Lu¶3s M B Cabral

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