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Confidence and college applications : evidence from a randomized intervention

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Schmacker, Renke; Terrier, Camille - 2023

measure the self-conﬁdence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. The best female students and students … and high-SES students. By matching our survey data with administrative data on real college applications and admissions … randomized intervention that corrects students' under-and overconﬁdence by informing them of their real rank in the grade …

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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence

Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2013

laboratory experiment, as we observe convergence to the Nash equilibrium values at the aggregate as well as at the individual …

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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam

Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021

We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social … Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with … different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of …

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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence

Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2011

We study both theoretically and experimentally the complete set of Nash equilibria of a classical one-dimensional, majority rule election game with two candidates, who might be interested in power as well as in ideology, but not necessarily in the same way. Apart from obtaining the well known...

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Patents versus subsidies : a laboratory experiment

Darai, Donja; Großer, Jens; Trhal, Nadja - 2009

price competition. Both stages of the game are implemented in a laboratory experiment and the obtained results support the … ; subsidies ; experiment …

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(Anti-) coordination in networks

Kovářík, Jaromír; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2010

We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Partici- pants interact with their …

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Self-reinforcing market dominance

Halbheer, Daniel; Fehr, Ernst; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2007

Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms...

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