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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 …
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How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations; the Effects of Distance
Krogh Graversen, Brian; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...
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Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In …
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The Insiders' Dilemma: An Experiment on Merger Formation
Lindqvist, Tobias; Stennek, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper tests the insiders’ dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders’ dilemma means that a …
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee under Endogenous Supervision
Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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Information Gatekeepers: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Palfrey, Thomas R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
is little evidence of learning over the 40 matches of the experiment. …
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Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Krawczyk, Michal; Winden, Frans … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis
Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136539
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Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
direction, we have conducted a laboratory experiment with 490 participants. We consider "cooperative" investments that directly …
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