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Dynamic Supplier Contracts under Asymmetric Inventory Information
Zhang, Hao; Nagarajan, Mahesh; Sosic, Greys - 2010
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream newsvendor-type retailer. We make two assumptions that enrich this simple and well-understood model. First, we consider a multi-period model, in which the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t,...
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Racial Discrimination and Competition
Levine, Ross - 2014
This paper assesses the impact of competition on racial discrimination. The dismantling of inter- and intrastate bank … intensification of competition in the nonfinancial sector, and evaluate its impact on the racial wage gap, which is that component of … racial wage gap by spurring the entry of non- financial firms. Consistent with taste-based theories, competition reduced both …
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Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore
Li, Huailu - 2015
The street sex worker market in Geylang, Singapore is highly competitive. Clients can search legally at negligible cost. Sex workers discriminate based on client ethnicity despite an excess supply of sex workers. Workers are more (less) likely to approach and ask a higher (lower) price of...
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Multidimensional Private Information, Market Structure and Insurance Markets
Fang, Hanming - 2016
A large empirical literature found that the correlation between insurance purchase and ex post realization of risk is often statistically insignificant or negative. This is inconsistent with the predictions from the classic models of insurance a la Akerlof (1970), Pauly (1974) and Rothschild and...
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Charness, Gary - 2010
robustness to labor market competition both theoretically and experimentally. Consistent with our theoretical model, we observe … substantial ratchet effects in the absence of competition, which is nearly eliminated when competition is introduced; this is true …
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The Impact of Intergroup Contact on Racial Attitudes and Revealed Preferences
Carrell, Scott E. - 2015
Understanding whether racial attitudes are malleable is critical for addressing the underlying causes of racial discrimination. We examine whether white males' stated attitudes and behavior toward African Americans change based on the number and type of black peers to whom they are exposed. To...
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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2023
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
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The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2008
Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. There is little empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. This paper describes basic facts about the plight of mixed race individuals during their...
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An Empirical Test of Taste-Based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and Their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE During World War I
Moser, Petra - 2008
A significant challenge to empirically testing theories of discrimination has been the difficulty of identifying taste-based discrimination and of distinguishing it clearly from statistical discrimination. This paper addresses this problem through a two-part empirical test of taste-based...
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Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2008
the model's main predictions can be shown theoretically to survive the effects of long run competition …
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