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language border. We can therefore study the role of culture in shaping the demand for social insurance. Specifically, we …
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This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the …
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Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …
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both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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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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little, fierce competition between providers of similar services is expected. We consider a model where two e …
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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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Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed …
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