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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...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...

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On the Effects of Mergers on Equilibrium Outcomes in a Common Property Renewable Asset Oligopoly

BENCHEKROUN, Hassan; GAUDET, Gérard - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2013

This paper examines a dynamic game of exploitation of a common pool of some renewable asset by agents that sell the result of their exploitation on an oligopolistic market. A Markov Perfect Nash Equilibrium of the game is used to analyze the effects of a merger of a subset of the agents. We...

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The Double Curse of a Common Property Productive Asset Oligopoly

BENCHEKROUN, Hassan - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2005

We build a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium of a common property productive asset oligopoly. We derive two surprising …

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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and … employees (n = 2288). The results indicate that entrepreneurs perceive themselves as less risk averse than managers and …

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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will give new direction to the neighbourhood effects...

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