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Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Gender-Task Stereotypes
Grosse, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487471
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Testing Forbearance Experimentally - Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms
Güth, Werner; Häger, Kirsten; Kirchkamp, Oliver; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
.e., firms competing on multiple structurally unrelated markets, can effectively limit competition. Our more general analysis … effects of forbearance and repeated interaction. Surprisingly, conglomerate firms do not limit competition, they rather foster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466105
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Time to Defect: Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma Experiments with Uncertain Horizon
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner; Kamecke, Ulrich - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Using a symmetric 2-person prisoners' dilemma as the base game, each player receives a signal for the number of rounds to be played with the same partner. The actual number of rounds (the length of the supergame) is determined by the maximal signal where each player expects the other's signal to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051042
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Tit for Others' Tat Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments with Third-Party Monitoring and Indirect Punishment
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner's Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884463
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Alternating or compensating? An experimentrepeated sequential best shot game
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In the two-person sequential best shot game, first player 1 contributes to a public good and then player 2 is informed about this choice before contributing. The payoff from the public good is the same for both players and depends only on the maximal contribution. Efficient voluntary cooperation...
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Provision of Multilevel Public Goods through Positive Externalities: Experimental Evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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Learning from the Experiments of Others Simultaneous Search, Coordination in R&D and Diffusion Processes: Laboratory Evidence
Grosse, Niels D.; Kirchkamp, Oliver - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we are studying a multiple player two-armed bandit model with two risky arms in discrete time. Players have to find the superior arm and can learn from others' history of choices and successes. In equilibrium, there is no con?ict between individual and social rationality. If agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964125
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The Good, the Bad, and the Talented: Entrepreneurial Talent and Other-Regarding Behavior
Weitzel, Utz; Urbig, Diemo; Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Talent allocation models assume that entrepreneurial talent is selfish and thus allocates into unproductive or even destructive activities if these offer the highest private returns. This paper experimentally analyzes other-regarding preferences of entrepreneurial talent. We find that making a...
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Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
I examine how financial incentives interact with intrinsic motivation and especially cognitive abilities in explaining heterogeneity in performance. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, I show that the effectiveness of high-powered financial incentives as a stimulator of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090474
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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion - An experimental investigation
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090568