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Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the …

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Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency : An Experiment

Cabrales, Antonio - 2006

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...

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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary - 2010

In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...

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United But (Un-)Equal : Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Cremer, Helmuth - 2012

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...

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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence

Robin, Stéphane - 2012

We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...

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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Cremer, Helmuth - 2015

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...

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Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Cremer, Helmuth - 2016

This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and productivity are negatively correlated. This condition is...

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