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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition : experimental evidence
Danz, David - 2014 - Rev.
-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition … Prowse experiment, where the latter treatment removes the scope for social comparisons. If disappointment aversion simply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647659
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment involves a competition against Nature and removes the scope for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660754
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition … Prowse experiment, where the latter treatment removes the scope for social comparisons. If disappointment aversion simply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658021
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Exclusion in the all-pay auction : an experimental investigation
Fehr, Dietmar; Schmid, Julia - 2014 - Rev.
Contest or auction designers who want to maximize the overall revenue are frequently concerned with a trade-off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of bidders with high valuations. In our experimental study, we find that it is not profitable to exclude the most able bidder in favor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403250
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Exclusion in the all-pay auction : an experimental investigation
Fehr, Dietmar; Schmid, Julia - 2017 - Revised version of the WZB Discussion Paper SP II 2014-206
Contest designers or managers who want to maximize the overall revenue of a contest (relative performance scheme) are frequently concerned with a trade-off between contest homogeneity and inclusion of contestants with high valuations. In our experimental study, we find that it is not profitable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638535
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The Value of Competition
Girard, Yann - 2013
financial, risk preference and expectation effects. In the baseline experiment, the existence of gender differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080596
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Communication, coordination and competition in the beauty contest game: Eleven classroom experiments
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Fernández, Virtudes Alba; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2004
communication can only be explained by subjects endowed with competitive other-regarding preferences. Experiments are run in 11 …
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Inequity aversion and advantage seeking with asymmetric competition
Cox, Caleb A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 121-136
In this experiment I study a novel three-player ultimatum game in which two proposers with unequal amounts of money …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688115
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015
differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
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