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academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to …
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An important result in convex analysis is the duality between a closed convex set and its support function. We exploit this duality to develop a novel geometric approach to mechanism design. For a general class of social choice problems we characterize the feasible set, which is closed and...
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psychologically robust mechanism. Such a mechanism can be implemented without information about the type or the intensity of social …
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identify the endowment and attachment effect and study their impact on information rents, allowing us to show that, in contrast …
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identify the endowment and attachment effect and study their impact on information rents, allowing us to show that, in contrast …
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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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An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that …
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-biased agents to avoid information about negative future impacts of such activities. We then confront our model with data from an … experiment using prepared, restaurant-style meals—a good that is transparent in immediate pleasure (taste) but non-transparent in … (58 percent) chose to ignore free information on calorie content, leading at-risk subjects to consume significantly more …
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paper, we investigate the role of information for the labour-leisure choice. We conduct an information experiment wherein we …Information plays a key role in economics. According to the benchmark neoclassical model, agents require information in … order to optimize their choices. Information, however, is sometimes incomplete or asymmetric in the real world. In this …
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unbiased approach to the treatment of information, the overall increase in disclosure frequency in the statutory sanctions … period does indicate an improvement in the information flow to the capital market …
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