-scale field experiment conducted in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price … price gap also falls with the number of nearby repair shops, suggesting that market competition alleviates gender … requests that appear to come from high-income households raise quotes for men but not women, eliminating the gender gap. The …

the loser-selecting tournament, which means the promotion ratio is more than one-half, workers prefer a low risk approach … or a common approach which peers also know well; on the other hand, under the winner-selecting tournament, which means … results suggest that the loser-selecting tournament is more efficient than the winner-selecting tournament in terms of the …

private information, they provide a means of revealing part of that information by inducing competition between agents. If … two well-known auction institutions, the fixed-prize tournament and the scoring auction. It combines both with an entry …

determined endogenously by a post-tournament auction. The introduction of a post-tournament auction to endogenize contestants …’ expected payoffs allows for a scenario where the tournament winner benefits less from the winning prize itself than more from … the positive signal that his victory conveys to the outside world. In the case of a sports tournament, for example, the …

Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …

gumbel distributed stochastic part, and derived its equilibrium output, a marriage match- ing function. The marriage matching …

search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers. Thereby, the class of local polynomial matching … estimators is the central object of investigation. The first essay concentrates on applying local polynomial matching methods in … algorithms for the matching estimator. …