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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2009
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
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Bayesian Repeated Games and Reputations
Forges, Francoise; Salomon, Antoine - CESifo - 2014
Under appropriate assumptions (private values and uniform punishments), the Nash equilibria of a Bayesian repeated game without discounting are payoff-equivalent to tractable, completely revealing, equilibria and can be achieved as interim cooperative solutions of the initial Bayesian game. This...
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Innovation Contests
Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029260
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
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Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure
Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - CESifo - 2014
prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost … structure. I show that one cannot determine which regulatory instrument that induces the highest expected welfare based on the …
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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086979
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and Through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607469