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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282257
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262248
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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267647
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Social networks
de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275834
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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271236
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Negative externalities and equilibrium existence in competitive markets with adverse selection
von Siemens, Ferdinand; Kosfeld, Michael - 2009
on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276700
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Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga; Otrachshenko, Vladimir - 2019
We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high incarceration rates, repression, and harsh punishments. We argue that those exposed to forced labor camps...
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Does Random Selection of Commissioners Improve the Quality of Selected Candidates? An Investigation in the Italian Academia
Checchi, Daniele; De Poli, Silvia; Rettore, Enrico - 2017
We study a reform occurred in Italy in 2008 in the formation of selection committees for qualifying as university professor. Prior to the reform members of the selection committees were elected by their peers, after the reform they have been randomly drawn. This policy was intended to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744556
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Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2019
Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers' level of self-confidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005916