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Competition and incentives
Schmidt, Klaus M.; Fey, Lisa Magdalena; Thoma, Carmen - 2017 - This version: April 27, 2017
We report on two experiments that identify non-monetary incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors …-monetary incentive effects of competition going in the opposite direction. In the experiments we change the number of competitors … comparisons as one potential mechanism for this effect. It shows that competition turns the effort decisions of competing managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697511
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Understanding the gender pay gap : what's competition got to do with it?
Manning, Alan (contributor); Saidi, Farzad (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003842214
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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions
Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023
How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...
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More than joints : multi-substance use, choice limitations, and policy implications
Sovinsky, Michelle; Jacobi, Liana; Allocca, Alessandra; … - 2023
As illicit substances move into the legal product space, substitution patterns with legal products become more salient. In particular, marijuana legalization may have implications for the use of other legal “sin” goods. We estimate a structural model of multi-product use of illegal and legal...
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Modeling the Duration of Patent Examination at theEuropean Patent Office
Harhoff, Dietmar; Wagner, Stefan - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2006
We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the EuropeanPatent Office (EPO). Our data contain information related to the patent’seconomic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novelcitation measures which are derived from the EPO’s search reports. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418841
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How do taxes affect the trading behavior of private investors? : evidence from individual portfolio data
Buhlmann, Florian; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Voget, Johannes; … - 2020 - This version: May 13, 2020
We exploit a large reform of capital-gains taxation in Germany combined with portfolio-level daily panel data to study the causal effect of taxes on individual stock-trading behavior and the disposition effect. We find substantial spikes in selling probabilities around an intertemporal tax...
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Poland on the dole : unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...
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Modelling heaping effects in unemployment duration models : with an application to retrospective event data in the German socio-economic panel
Kraus, Florian; Steiner, Viktor - 1995
Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at certain durations. This common kind of measurement error is known as "heaping" in the statistical literature. Although heaping effects may lead to severe biases in estimated...
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
; import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …
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Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods : an experimental study
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2015 - September 2013, revised March 2015
We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for expe-rience goods where sellers can build up … reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed … prices are fixed or endoge-nously chosen, we find that price competition lowers efficiency as consumers pay too little …
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