Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,494
Cover Image
Reinforcement Learning in Contests
Chaudhary, Vikas - 2021
We study contests as an example of winner-take-all competition with linearly ordered large strategy space. We study a model in which each player optimizes the probability of winning above some subjective threshold. The environment we consider is that of limited information where agents play the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323548
Cover Image
Asymmetric discouragement in asymmetric contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016
We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539207
Cover Image
Asymmetric discouragement in asymmetric contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016
We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544119
Cover Image
Competition modulates buyers' reaction to sellers' cheap talk
Onderstal, Sander; Shalvi, Shaul; Soraperra, Ivan - 2023
-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014299618
Cover Image
Majoritarian contests with asymmetric battlefields : an experiment
Montero, María; Possajennikov, Alexandre; Sefton, Martin; … - 2013
choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224988
Cover Image
Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402693
Cover Image
Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383805
Cover Image
Sabotage in Contests : A Survey
Chowdhury, Subhasish M. - 2013
A contest is a situation in which individuals expend resources in order to win valuable prize(s). 'Sabotage' is a deliberate, and often costly and illegal, act of damaging a rival's likelihood of winning the contest. It is done by exerting resources to negatively influence the effectiveness of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074732
Cover Image
Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014
environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048821
Cover Image
Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014
environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050459