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Measuring the competitiveness of elections

Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018

exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district … competitiveness which rest on explicit calculations about how votes translate into seats, but also implicit assumptions about how … the units in which competitiveness is best measured, arguing in favor of vote-share denominated measures and against vote …

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for …

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Gender differences in performance under competition : is there a stereotype threat shadow?

Geraldes, Diogo; Riedl, Arno; Strobel, Martin - 2020

The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon. One explanation for the disadvantaged position of women put forward in the economic and psychology literature is the weaker response of women to competitive incentives. Despite...

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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …

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Gender differences in competitiveness : the role of social incentives

Drouvelis, Michalis; Rigdon, Mary L. - 2022

The provision of social incentives in the workplace, where performance benefits a charitable cause, has been frequently used in modern organizations. In this paper, we quantify the impact of social incentives on performance under two incentive schemes: piece rate and a winner-take-all...

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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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Piracy and competition

Belleflamme, Paul (contributor); … - 2004

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally differentiated, demands are interdependent because the...

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Equilibrium unemployment and capital intensity under product and labor market imperfections

Kauppi, Heikki (contributor); Koskela, Erkki (contributor); … - 2004

We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous and endogenous capital intensity. With endogenous capital intensity, stronger labor market imperfections always increase equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the...

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Sabotaging potential rivals

Amegashie, J. Atsu (contributor); Runkel, Marco (contributor) - 2005

This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of players there is a pure-strategy equilibrium in...

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Lobbying and Compromise

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Nitsan, Shemuʾel (contributor) - 2005

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition or the elected policy maker in a citizen-...

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