case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated …

the market. A probit model was applied for repeated-cross-sections on ?specific? local areas in order to control for …

as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …

Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past …. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, while the economic rationale … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts …

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …

academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact … individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor performers …

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power … firms from developed market economies, thus providing a set of natural benchmarks. We find substantial evidence of …

competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document …