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Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021

A standard result in contests is that a higher-ability player has a higher probability of winning the prize than a lower-ability player. Put differently, a stronger player has an advantage over a weaker player in a contest. There are very few exceptions to this standard result. I consider a...

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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc

Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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Reactivity in economic science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration

Kohler, Wilhelm (contributor) - 2007

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A theory of reciprocity

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Competition and innovation in automobile markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …

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Gender quotas, competitions, and peer review : experimental evidence on the backlash against women

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2015 - This version: 11 September 2015

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...

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Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection

Siemens, Ferdinand von; Kosfeld, Michael - 2014

Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the...

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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges

Buser, Thomas - 2014

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

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