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Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine "spillover" effects … important economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where …, tournaments, R&D races, models of ligitation, and a host of other contests. …

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Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case....

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Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the …

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

, pages 402-422.<P> A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral …

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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...

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Price-setting Power versus Private Information

Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper investigates the extent of the holdup underinvestment problem in a buyer-seller relationship in which the seller has private information about his alternative trading opportunities. Theory predicts that, compared with a situation in which outside options are publicly observed, the...

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Should the Same Side of the Market always move first in a Transaction? An Experimental Study

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper investigates whether transactions where the buyer (or the seller) always moves first, andthe seller (or the buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchangesin which it is randomly determined who moves first. We examine the effect of two...

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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we …

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