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Gender matching and competitiveness: experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2013

This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a...

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Biased  Information  and  Effort

Rosaz, Julie - HAL - 2012

We study the impact of information manipulation by a principal on the agent's effort. In a context of asymmetric information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under-estimate) the information she gives to her agent on his...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790485

Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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A "winner" under any voting rule ? An experiment on the single transferable vote

Farvaque, Etienne; Jayet, Hubert; Ragot, Lionel - HAL - 2009

In this paper, we expose the results of a voting experiment realised in 2007, during the French Presidential election …. This experiment aimed at confronting the Single Transferable vote (SVT) procedure to two criteria : simplicity and the …, the details of the experiment are the same and it is shown that the simplicity criterion is respected. However, with …

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Experimental Economics: Contributions, Recent Developments, and New Challenges

Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2007

Although economics has long been considered as a non-experimental science, the development of experimental economics and behavioral economics is amazingly rapid and affects most fields of research. This paper first attempts at defining the main contributions of experiments to economics. It also...

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The Price of Prejudice: Labour Market Discrimination on the Grounds of Gender and Ethnicity

Bassanini, Andrea; Saint-Martin, Anne - HAL - 2008

Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic discrimination in many countries. We show indirect cross-country/time-series evidence that, using product market...

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A Matching Model of the Academic Publication Market

Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2011

matching technology and the prevailing surplus sharing rule. The model can be solved for the equilibrium submission fee, desk …

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Efficiency Gains from Narrowing Banks: A Search-Theoretic Approach

Tripier, Fabien - HAL - 2012

In view of the recent proposals on banking reform in the wake of the recent global economic crisis, this paper identifies some efficiency gains associated with narrow banking using an approach based on search theory. It is herein shown that the optimal allocation of resources can be...

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A Matching Model of the Academic Publication Market

Vranceanu, Radu; Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim - HAL - 2010

of informational friction. The key modelling device is a paper-tojournal matching function, similar to the matching …

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Matching in Rural Producer Organizations

Arcand, Jean-Louis; Fafchamps, Marcel - HAL - 2011

for evidence of assortative matching along multiple dimensions. To this e¤ect we develop an original methodology based on … dyadic regressions. We ...nd robust evidence of assortative matching by physical and ethnic proximity as well as by wealth …

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