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Non-transitive patterns in long-term football rivalries

Ours, Jan C. van - 2024

The phenomenon of non-transitivity in outcomes, typically observed in non-effort games with predetermined probabilities and immediate clarity, extends to teambased, time-consuming games requiring effort that unfold over a long period of time. This study explores this aspect through an empirical...

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Are entrepreneurs more optimistic and overconfident than managers and employees?

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of …

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The flipside of comparative payment schemes

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...

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Are we overdiagnosing mental illnesses? : evidence from randomly assigned doctors

Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021 - This draft: August 2021

Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...

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Winning by losing : evidence on overbidding in mergers

Malmendier, Ulrike; Moretti, Enrico; Peters, Florian - 2011

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Economic impact of illness with health insurance but without income insurance

Neelsen, Sven; Supon Limwattananon; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015

We examine economic vulnerability to illness when, as for informal sector workers in Thailand, there is universal coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness that strikes an initially healthy worker is found to raise...

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Subjective expectations of medical expenditures and insurance in rural Ethiopia

Yilma, Zelalem; O'Donnell, Owen; Mebratie, Anagaw; … - 2015

Little is known about perceptions of medical expenditure risks despite their presumed relevance to health insurance demand. This paper reports on a unique elicitation of subjective probabilities of medical expenditures from rural Ethiopians who are offered the opportunity to purchase health...

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Risk and savings : a taxonomy

Gunning, Jan Willem - 2008

Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...

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Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2009

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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Business ownership and economic growth in 23 OECD countries

Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, … - 2000

development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of … economic development? Second, what is the speed ofconvergence towards the equilibrium rate when the rate of business ownership … mechanisms that are vital for a sound economic development. …

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