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We investigate how social comparison processes in leader treatment quality impact group members’ self-worth, affect, and behavior. Evidences from the field and the laboratory suggest that employees who are treated kinder and more considerate than their fellow group members experience more...
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Using data from the US General Social Survey 1972–2004, we study the role of perceptions and status in self … dwelling, and social class relate positively and very significantly to happiness. Perceptions about income and status matter …
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This paper analyzes the role played by the presence or the absence of companions in the individual experience of visiting an art museum. Until now, little research has focused on the visitor’s accompaniment, even though the dual nature of visiting a museum, both a social leisure activity and...
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We consider all-pay auctions in the presence of interdependent, affiliated valuations and private budget constraints. For the sealed-bid, all-pay auction we characterize a symmetric equilibrium in continuous strategies for the case of N bidders. Budget constraints encourage more aggressive...
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This paper analyzes the unilateral choices of application compatibility by platforms and the endogenous affiliations of two different groups (content providers and users). We find a novel result that for both platforms to unilaterally choose application compatibility is not an equilibrium unless...
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The paper analyzes a first price, sealed bid auction with a random reservation price where the object has an unknown common value, but one buyer has better information than the others. We permit the reservation price to be correlated with the information of the informed buyer, which reflects...
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the single agent case. Then, we show that affiliation of the random variables is a necessary and sufficient condition for …
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We consider all-pay auctions in the presence of interdependent, affiliated valuations and private budget constraints. For the sealed-bid, all-pay auction we characterize a symmetric equilibrium in continuous strategies for the case of N bidders and we investigate its properties. Budget...
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Does affiliation with a business group enhance a firm's performance? What is the potential effect of this affiliation … authors explore the role of business group affiliation as a firm-specific factor and its impact in different environments … country of origin). Regarding the latter, it is specifically revealed that the impact of group affiliation is not uniform …
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