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Overconfidence Can Improve an Agent's Relative and Absolute Performance in Contests

Ludwig, Sandra; Wichardt, Philipp C.; Wickhorst, Hanke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper suggests a potential rationale for the recent empirical finding that overconfident agents tend to self-select into more competitive environments (e.g. Dohmen and Falk, forthcoming). In particular, it shows that moderate overconfidence in a contest can improve the agent's performance...

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Information Disclosure in Open Non-Binding Procurement Auctions: an Empirical Study

Stoll, Sebastian; Zöttl, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The outcome of non-binding reverse auctions critically depends on how information is distributed during the bidding … process. We use data from a large European procurement platform to study the impact of different information structures … that on the procurement platform considered bidders indeed are aware of their rivals' characteristics and the buyers …

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Searching the eBay Marketplace

Sailer, Katharina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

from a sequence of eBay auctions. First the aspect of bidding in a marketplace environment is developed. Form the simple … a "reservation bid" for low-price auctions. Extending results from the empirical auction literature and employing a …

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Fairness, Adverse Selection, and Employment Contracts

Siemens, Ferdinand von - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper considers a firm whose potential employees have private information on both their productivity and the extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening...

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Why were FIFA World Cup Tickets so cheap?

Eichhorn, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We examine the pricing decision of a multi-product monopolist in a two-sided market where the type structure of buyers on one side of the market is an important determinant of profit on the other side. In this situation it might be optimal to set prices below the maximum sellout price and to...

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Kalkulation im Einkauf : Potenziale erkennen, bewerten und professionell realisieren

Bräkling, Elmar; Lux, Jörg; Oidtmann, Klaus; Weinert, … - 2020

allgemeine BWL mit dem Schwerpunkt Beschaffung und Logistik an der Hochschule Koblenz. Dr. Jörg Lux ist Professor für Logistik …

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Einkauf 4.0 : digitale Transformation der Beschaffung

Kleemann, Florian C.; Glas, Andreas - 2020 - 2., aktualisierte und überarbeitete Auflage

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Big data und data science in der strategischen Beschaffung : Grundlagen - Voraussetzungen - Anwendungschancen

Zeisel, Stefan - 2020

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Agiler Einkauf : mit Scrum, Design Thinking & Co. die Beschaffung verändern

Kleemann, Florian C. - 2020

Neben Digitalisierung und Einkauf 4.0 hat vor allem die Agilität den Einkauf stark beschäftigt. Doch eine gezielte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema hat bisher gefehlt. Dieses Essential gibt einen Überblick über agile Methoden in den Bereichen Projektmanagement, Innovation sowie Führung und...

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An Experimental Test of Precautionary Bidding

Kocher, Martin G.; Pahlke, Julius; Trautmann, Stefan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common knowledge ex-post risk that is independent of buyers’ private values … bidding with data from the field seems almost impossible. We conduct experimental first-price auctions that allow us to …

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