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Customer Service Quality and Incomplete Information in Mobile Telecommunications: A Game Theoretical Approach to Consumer Protection
perez-amaral, teodosio; Zorzano, Rafael López; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, … - 2012
There is growing evidence that low-quality customer service prevails in the mobile telecommunications industry. In this paper we provide theoretical support to this empirical observation by using simple game theoretical models where inefficient low-quality service levels are part of an...
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2013
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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Gender matching and competitiveness: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2013
matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a piece rate payment scheme, and finally perform a real task. As … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co … tournament incentives, or allowing the participants to choose the gender of their co-participant, increases women's willingness …
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277839
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754117
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Quality and Competition
Banker, Rajiv D.; Khosla, Inder; Sinha, Kingshuk K. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 9, pp. 1179-1192
In recent years, the practitioner literature in operations management has seen a dramatic surge in articles on quality management. It reflects the increased emphasis on quality by U.S. firms, which has been attributed largely to increased competition faced by them. The question of how quality is...
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Hybrid R&D
Goyal, Sanjeev; Konovalov, Alexander; Moraga, Jose Luis - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
standard price and quantity setting oligopoly models. We then study the relation between the number of joint projects and …
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Capital Structure and Product Market Strategy
Bai, Chong-en; Li, Shan - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 1 (2000) 2, pp. 381-400
This paper develops a general framework to analyze the relationship between a firm's capital structure and its product market strategy and presents a taxonomy of whether debt makes a firm {\it tough} or {\it soft} in product market competition and how strategic considerations affect the leverage...
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Cooperación en modelos de Cournot con información incompleta/Cooperation in Cournot’s Models with Incomplete Information
SOMBRÍA, ARRANZ; ROSA, M. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 29 (2011) Abril, pp. 397-397
previo. Cournot oligopoly is studied under the circumstances that firms do not have complete information about their …
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