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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

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Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs and Salaried Workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

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Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs and Salaried Workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 5, pp. 2900-2911

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The impact of naive advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games

Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naive advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments: An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007

, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing …

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The Impact of Naïve Advice and Observational Learning in Beauty-contest Games

Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naïve advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325406

Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007

, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing …

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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

We present a model where compensation within a workteam is determinedendogenously by the use of a rank-order tournament. Team memberscompete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prizewithin the team. The implementation of a proposal requires the approvalof other team...

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The economics of credence goods : on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

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