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Job assignment and promotion under statistical discrimination: evidence from the early careers of lawyers
Lehmann, Jee-Yeon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
survey tracking the professional lives of more than 4,000 lawyers. Compared to whites of similar credentials, blacks are much …
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The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income
Nakazato, Minoru; Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
, and scarcity elsewhere. The most talented would-be lawyers (those with the highest opportunity costs) pass the bar …
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Contract enforcement, litigation, and economic development
Massenot, Baptiste - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
contracts with entrepreneurs. A contest ensues in which both agents hire lawyers to increase their probability of winning the … trial. The issue and the cost of the contest determine how much investors are willing to lend. More lawyers are hired when … lawyers benefit the economy, while the impact of higher damages is ambiguous. Some empirical evidence is also presented. …
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Net-Loss Reciprocation and the Context Dependency of Economic Choices
König, Clemens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper proposes a novel explanation for the context dependency of individual choices in two-player games. Context dependency refers to the well-established phenomenon that a player, when choosing from a given opportunity set created by the other player’s strategy, chooses differently in...
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A Game Theoretic Framework for Competing/Cooperating Retailers under price and advertising dependent demand
Dridi, Dhouha; Ben Youssef, Slim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, we develop a game theoretic model for cooperative advertising in a supply chain consisting of a monopolistic manufacturer selling its product to the consumer only through competing duopolistic retailers. We consider a new form of the demand function which is an additive form. The...
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Mineral exploration as a game of chance
Bell, Peter N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Exploration is a costly activity that helps a business improve their understanding of a potential mineral deposit. Yet, even with strong exploration results, the business faces uncertainty over the value of the mine. I model this situation as a game of chance. The game starts by giving an agent...
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Pricing behaviour at capacity constrained facilities
Larsen, Huric; Fredborg, Jesper - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Entry of new firms can be difficult or even impossible at capacity constrained facilities, despite the actual cost of entering is low. Using a game theoretic model of incumbent firms’ pricing behaviour under these conditions, it is found that under the assumption of Bertrand competition and...
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The 15-years-long emergency, the burial-of-the-dead conflict and the ultimatum game.
Villani, Salvatore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The application of game theory and cognitive economy to analyze the problem of undesired location - The analysts of the processes of public bodies decision - taking have long been discussing on the establishment of proper strategies to manage "environmental conflicts" - above all the so-called...
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Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence
Shupp, Robert; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Many resource allocation contests have the property that individuals undertake costly actions to appropriate a potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The...
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A Game Theoretic Analysis of a Regional Approach toward the Sustainability of Kolkata-Agartala Transit Route
Sen, S. K.; Mukhopadhyay, I; Gupta, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper attempts to explore the possibilities of a viable transport network in the long run which can respond to the demand for communication by people of Tripura as well as the demand of Tripura’s projected economy. Since, Tripura is constantly facing the problem of lack of a smooth...
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