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Leij, Marco J. van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto … presence of competition the profit-maximizingand socially optimal decision would be to cluster the two stations. Bycontrast, in … the absence of competition both a profit-maximizing firm and a socialplanner would locate the two stations on opposite …

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

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Oligopolistic Competition in Price and Quality

Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper led to an article in Games and Economic Behavior (2012), pp. 120-138. We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered,...

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that … in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff … gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the …

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Competition and Educational Quality: Evidence from The Netherlands

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond H.J.M.; Jong, Matthijs de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large scale competition. In the Netherlands free … 100% funding. Based on panel data for the Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and educational …

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Wage Dynamics and Promotions inside and between Firms

Silva, Antonio Dias da; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A HREF="http://personal.vu.nl/b.vander.klaauw/promotions.htm">'Journal of Population Economics'</A>, 2011, 24, 1513-1548. We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the...</a>

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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers

Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …

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School Choice and Competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is … present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

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The Flipside of Comparative Payment Schemes

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …

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Competition in the Presence of Individual Demand Uncertainty

Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper sheds light on a recent empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination in … sales that is more skewed towards low prices. We show that whether competition has a positive or a negative effect on the …

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