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Optimal and Fair Prizing in Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments: Experimental Evidence
Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022
the prize structure affects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …
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Optimal and Fair Prizing in Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments : Experimental Evidence
Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022
the prize structure affects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293842
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Discrimination at Young Age: Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018
Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...
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Contests as Selection Mechanisms: The Impact of Risk Aversion
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2017
We investigate how individual risk preferences affect the likelihood of selecting the more able contestant within a two-player Tullock contest. Our theoretical model yields two main predictions: First, an increase in the risk aversion of a player worsens her odds unless she already has a...
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Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments with Multiple Prizes
Laica, Christoph; Lauber, Arne; Sahm, Marco - 2017
We examine the fairness and intensity of sequential round-robin tournaments with multiple prizes. With three symmetric …
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Fairness in Round-Robin Tournaments with Four Players and Endogenous Sequences
Dietz, Fabian; Sahm, Marco - 2024
We examine the effects of endogenous sequences on the fairness in round-robin tournaments with four players, multiple … show that there is no sequence which implies perfect fairness. By contrast, some endogenous sequences imply horizontal ex …-ante fairness irrespective of the prize structure. In winner-take-all tournaments, additional endogenous sequences are horizontally …
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How effective are advertising bans? On the demand for quality in two-sided media markets
Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - 2011
We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
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Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders: Evidence from children in a bilingual city
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether thelanguage spoken by a partner in a prisoner’s dilemma game affects behavior and leadsto discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year oldprimary school children in the city of...
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How to measure time preferences in children – A comparison of two methods
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
We measure time preferences in a sample of 561 children aged seven to eleven years. Using awithin-subject design we compare the behavior of our subjects in two distinct experimentaltasks: a standard choice list with multiple decisions and a simpler time-investment-exerciserequiring one decision...
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We...
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