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 …

on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

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 … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …

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 …