politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first …

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which …

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment …

in preference for interethnic competition …