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-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the … of our core tasks to further explore the interactions between self-awareness, (dis)honesty and competition. We also test …
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uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We … present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but where the number of winners is either uncertain … willingness to enter competition with uncertainty and ambiguity, but men react slightly more than women. Overall, both effects …
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academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures , which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women s cheating behavior is entirely due to …
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We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers … offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …
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Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
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Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518078
oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …
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