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attractiveness produces more cooperative behavior by counterparts, but only in mixed-gender interactions. Effects of attractiveness …
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competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …
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I present a game-theoretic model where economic competition and attention competition are interdependent. On the one … price competition among all perceived firms. On the other hand attracting attention involves costs which must be covered by … the earnings from competition. It is the task of this paper to clarify the consequences of such an interdependence between …
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be regarded as pure polyarchy, the broadest form of political competition, and a robust mechanism for disciplining …-off between cooperation and competition. We also provide evidence indicating that Choice Democracy would be viable in the real …
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robustness by introducing competition between agents. We find that communication and competition act as "substitutes …:" communication raises efficiency in the absence of competition but lowers efficiency with competition, and competition raises …
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Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …
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One of the most basic questions in economics concerns the effects of competition on market prices. We show that the … neglect of both fairness concerns and decision errors prevents a satisfactory understanding of how competition affects prices …. We conducted experiments which demonstrate that the introduction of even a very small amount of competition to a …
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We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can …
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