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Lester, Benjamin - 2013

In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...

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Strategic Behavior Across Gender : A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes Toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Hao, Li - 2014

more likely to enter competition in the presence of strategic uncertainty when they expect competitive entries from others …

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Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Mani, Subha - 2017

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...

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The Economics of Credence Goods : On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Dulleck, Uwe - 2009

has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …

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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

political competition is too high or too low. We first build a simple game theoretic model to capture the effect of electoral … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …

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Game, Set, and Match : Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?

Jetter, Michael - 2015

This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...

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Interdependency in Performance

Haraguchi, Kelii H. - 2007

We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive process, allowing us to sign and quantify the endogenous interactions between competitors. Doing so speaks to significant regularities in the data that suggest that a player's own...

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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...

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