competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … differences in risk aversion play no significant role in competitive (tournament) vs. piece-rate job choices and consequent gender … wage gaps. Subjects in the treatment experiments are sorted into relatively more and relatively less risk averse groupings …

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly … more likely to enter competition in the presence of strategic uncertainty when they expect competitive entries from others …

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they … competition in terms of decrease in mortality after the reform. We estimate a duration model for mortality stratified at the …

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …

This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that … manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition … increases risk aversion, especially for males, but not in a significant manner. When conditioning on the outcome, we find that …