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In this paper we consider the problem of sharing water from a river among a group of agents (countries, cities, firms) located along the river. The benefit of each agent depends on the amount of water consumed by the agent. An allocation of the water among the agents is efficient when it...
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appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender …
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Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the … subject of this paper - inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed earlier by Crouch and Ritchie - concerns … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …
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contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender … differences in competitiveness. We consider three possible indirect pathways through which sex hormones could affect …
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explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … cold-pressor task. We find no causal effect of stress on competitiveness for the sample as a whole and only tentative …
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competitiveness of industry, and that itinduces phenomena such as ecological dumping, ecological capital flight, and regulatory 'chill … subsequently increases its competitiveness. The impact of environmentalregulation on competitiveness has been analyzed in terms of … regulation and competitiveness are when itcomes to studies on international trade flows. The synthesis of the literature is …
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … between the competitiveness of mothers and their daughters, but not between the competitiveness of mothers and their sons …
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We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large …-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey question eliciting general competitiveness on an 11-point scale. Both measures … attitudes, confidence and the Big Five personality traits. For most outcomes, the predictive power of competitiveness exceeds …
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