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This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a … dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition …
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significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition …. -- competition ; distributional preferences ; gender gap … distributional preferences, risk attitudes and past performance, the gender gap in the willingness to compete is no longer …
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This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a … dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition …
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This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a … dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition …
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either … ; experiment …
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Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
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