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Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Te, Bao; Schippers, Anouk L. - 2016

Commercial firms are increasingly tying the sales of their products with donations to a charitable cause. Apart from a charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report the results of an experiment that investigates...

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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?

Buser, Thomas - 2016

-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition …

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Assessment of tourist competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency

Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006

tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist market as a consequence of the transition from mass tourism to a …

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The impact of naïve advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games

Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007 - This version: January 24, 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naïve advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

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Dynamic efficiency of product market competition

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Vandekerckhove, Jan - 2007

in process R&D. Under Cournot competition firms always invest more in R&D than under Bertrand competition. More … importantly, Cournot competition yields lower prices than Bertrand competition when the R&D production process is efficient, when … competition exceeds that under Bertrand competition is even larger as competition over quantities always yields the largest …

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Intermodal competition in the London-Paris passenger market : high-speed rail and air transport

Behrens, Christiaan; Pels, Eric - 2009

This paper studies inter- and intramodal competition in the London-Paris passenger market. Using revealed preference …. The results show that competition is present in this market. Demand is elastic, and passengers are heterogeneous in their … of the Eurostar and the withdrawal of aviation alternatives indicate that competition will decline in the long-run. …

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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness

Buser, Thomas - 2009

We use fluctuations of female sex hormones occurring naturally over the menstrual cycle or induced by hormonal contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task...

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Network asymmetries and access pricing in cellular telecommunications

Kocsis, Viktória - 2005

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for...

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(Non-)insurance markets, loss size manipulation and competition : experimental evidence

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2016

power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … insurance markets. Insurer competition eliminates profits but not the loss size to uninsured consumers. This provides an …

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A theory on media bias and elections

Sun, Junze; Schram, Arthur; Sloof, Randolph - 2019

other ways to strengthen media competition − such as increased polarization and prevention of collusion − critically depends …

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