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Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

, tournaments, R&D races, models of ligitation, and a host of other contests. …-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine "spillover" effects … important economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where …

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Tournament Incentives in The Field: Gender Differences in The Workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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The Unique-lowest Sealed-bid Auction

Houba, Harold; Laan, Dinard van der; Veldhuizen, Dirk - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Unique-lowest sealed-bid auctions are auctions in which participation is endogenous and the winning bid is the lowest bid among all unique bids. Such auctions admit very many Nash equilibria (NEs) in pure and mixed strategies. The two-bidders' auction is similar to the Hawk-Dove game, which...

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Competitive Bidding in Auctions with Private and Common Values

Goeree, Jacob K.; Offerman, Theo - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

The objects for sale in most auctions possess both private and common value elements. This salient feature has not yet been incorporated into a strategic analysis of equilibrium bidding behaviour. This paper reports such an analysis for a stylised model in which bidders receive a private value...

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On Borel Probability Measures and Noncooperative Game Theory

Frenk, J.B.G.; Kassay, G.; Protassov, V. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

In this paper the well-known minimax theorems of Wald, Ville and Von Neumann are generalized under weaker topological conditions on the payoff function <i>f</i> and/or extended to the larger set of the Borel probability measures instead of the set of mixed strategies.

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The Trust Game behind the Veil of Ignorance: A Note on Gender Differences

Vyrastekova, Jana; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a "behind the veil of ignorance" design. This method yields strategies that are consistent with actions observed in the classical trust game experiments. We observe that, on average, men and women do not differ in "trust", and that women are...

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