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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...
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Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter?
Örs, Evren; Palomino, Frédéric; Peyrache, Eloïc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance …
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Suspense
Chan, William M; Courty, Pascal; Li, Hao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In a dynamic model of sports competition, we show that when spectators care only about the level of effort exerted by contestants, rewarding schemes that depend linearly on the final score difference provide more efficient incentives for efforts than schemes based only on who wins and loses....
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Contract Renewal and Incentives in Public Procurement
Dalen, Dag Morten; Moen, Espen R; Riis, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
tournament where they are ranked according to the quality of their services, and rewarded in terms of contract renewals. We …
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The Supermodular Stochastic Ordering
Meyer, Margaret A; Strulovici, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In many economic applications involving comparisons of multivariate distributions, supermodularity of an objective function is a natural property for capturing a preference for greater interdependence. One multivariate distribution dominates another according to the `supermodular stochastic...
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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Splitting Tournaments
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
high-prize tournament, while low-ability agents compete for the low prize. However, there are also equilibria in which … agents follow a mixed strategy and there can be reverse sorting, i.e. low-ability agents are in the tournament with the high … prize, while high-ability agents are in the low-prize tournament. We show that total effort always decreases compared to a …
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Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors
Bombarda, Pamela; McCann, Fergal; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their...
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Multilateral Subsidy Games
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper examines the rationale for multilateral agreements to limit investment subsidies. The welfare ranking of symmetric multilateral subsidy games is shown to depend on whether or not investment levels are "friendly", raising rival profits in total, and/or strategic complements, raising...
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Inefficient Diversification in Multimarket Oligopoly with Diseconomies of Scope
Dixon, Huw David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
This paper considers the incentives of oligopolistic firms to diversify into technologically related markets when there are diseconomies of scope. There is a rent-extraction incentive for firms to adopt flexible technologies, which enable them to enter technologically related markets, thereby...
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