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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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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

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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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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

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

This discussion paper has led to a publication in the Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 32(2), 305-326. 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...

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Competition for a Prize

Noll, Rob van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

I present a model in which individuals compete for a prize by choosing to apply or not. Abilities are private information and in attempt to select the best candidate, the committee compares applicants with an imperfect technology. The choice of application cost, size of the prize and use of...

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Continuous Time Trading in Markets with Adverse Selection

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new buyers and sellers takes place in continuoustime. In thecontinuous time model equilibria with properties that are qualitativelydifferent from thestatic equilibria, emerge....

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Inverse Adverse Selection: The Market for Gems

Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

, contractual, and legal solutions. Our results show that auctions (competition among many informed buyers) provide a solution to …

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Cycles and Multiple Equilibria in the Market for Durable Lemons

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Economic Theory (2002). Vol. 20, issue 3, pages 579-601. We investigate the nature of market failure in a dynamic version of Akerlof (1970) where identical cohorts of a durable good enter the market over time. In the dynamic model, equilibria with...

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Credit Rationing Effects of Credit Value-at-Risk

Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Smant, David J.C.; Vries, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Banks provide risky loans to firms which have superior information regarding the quality of their projects. Due to asymmetric information the banks face the risk of adverse selection. Credit Value-at-Risk (CVaR) regulation counters the problem of low quality, i.e. high risk, loans and therefore...

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Dynamic Insurance and Adverse Selection

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This discussion paper led to a publication in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Vol. 72(1), pages 45-59. We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand Stiglitz model where agents may differ with respect to theaccidental...

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