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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco - 2013
politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first …
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Competing on Good Politicians
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009
Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158061
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Tournaments and Office Politics : Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776121
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Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960265
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2014
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049076