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Increasing competition and the winner's curse: Evidence from procurement

Hong, Han; Shum, Matthew - 2001

We empirically measure the effects of increasing competition on equilibrium bidding in procurement auctions In common …' preferences Second we use these estimates to calculate the effects of increasing competition on both individual bids as well as … competition intensifies: increasing the number of bidders from 3 to 6 raises median procurement costs by about 15% In this setting …

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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Auctions vs negotiations in public procurement: Which works better?

Lalive, Rafael; Schmutzler, Armin - 2011

Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct negotiations. The relative advantages of these two modes are still imperfectly understood. This paper therefore studies public procurement of regional passenger railway services in Germany, where regional...

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Political culture and discrimination in contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...

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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment

Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008

academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …

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