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When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

that fix the number of pharmacies in a city, we use RDD to measure the effect of competition on sellers' ability to extract …

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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required …

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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Ko, Chia Chiun; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set...

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...

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Turf Wars

Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model … joint production but introduces competition for the reward. We find that collaboration has a non-monotonic relationship with …

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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...

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Information and Competition Entry

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 loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...

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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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