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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

of the world in order to influence the choice of a decision maker. We characterize the sampling strategies of the … 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 …

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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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