Dekel, E.; Scotchmer, S. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 1999
A long-standing conjecture is that winner-take-all games such as patent races lead to the survival of risk-takers and the extinction of risk-averters. In many species a winner-take-all game determines the males' right to reproduce, and the same argument suggests that males will evolve to be...