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The Economics of Credence Goods : On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Dulleck, Uwe - 2009
determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764487
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Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Rehwald, Kai - 2015
This paper compares the effectiveness of public and private providers of employment services. Reporting from a randomized field experiment conducted in Denmark we assess empirically the case for contracting out employment services for a well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014033
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform
Bernecker, Andreas - 2015
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016381
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912242
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104678
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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158043
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779356
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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity : Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Siddique, Abu - 2017
in preference for interethnic competition …
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Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?
Mani, Subha - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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