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the agents' mission, stressing the importance of the economics of identity in labor market settings. …
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.e., firms competing on multiple structurally unrelated markets, can effectively limit competition. Our more general analysis … effects of forbearance and repeated interaction. Surprisingly, conglomerate firms do not limit competition, they rather foster …
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.e., firms competing on multiple structurally unrelated markets, can effectively limit competition. Our more general analysis … effects of forbearance and repeated interaction. Surprisingly, conglomerate firms do not limit competition, they rather foster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466105
comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that …
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Using a symmetric 2-person prisoners' dilemma as the base game, each player receives a signal for the number of rounds to be played with the same partner. The actual number of rounds (the length of the supergame) is determined by the maximal signal where each player expects the other's signal to...
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Using a symmetric 2-person prisoners' dilemma as the base game, each player receives a signal for the number of rounds to be played with the same partner. The actual number of rounds (the length of the supergame) is determined by the maximal signal where each player expects the other's signal to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051042
Doctrinal lawyers strive to reduce legal uncertainty based on the premise that difficult to predict legal consequences … discourage socially desirable activities. Contributions from the economic theory of law suggest that increasing legal uncertainty … can be socially beneficial. We test in an innovative laboratory experiment whether increasing the variability of an …
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representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with …
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representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036023
This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
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