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Positional enhancement in effortbased social comparisons
Nieboer, Jeroen - 2022
Salient social comparisons to peers are generally thought to increase people's productive effort. But social comparisons can also become ends in themselves, with individuals seeking to outrank others by costly, non-productive means. This paper explores the motives behind such tendencies in the...
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Equilibrium in the Two Player, k-Double Auction with Affiliate Private Values
Kadan, Ohad - 2004
We prove the existence of an increasing equilibrium, and study the comparative statics of correlation in the k-double auction with affiliated private values. This is supposedly the simplest bilateral trading mechanism that allows for dependence in valuations between buyers and sellers. In the...
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Job switching: What's in it for me?
Backman, Mikaela; Kilkenny, Maureen - 2014
This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current …
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Correlation of types in Bayesian games
De Castro, Luciano - 2012
Despite their importance, games with incomplete information and dependent types are poorly understood; only special cases have been considered and a general approach is not yet available. In this paper, we propose a new condition (named richness) for correlation of types in (asymmetric) Bayesian...
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Auctions for Oil and Gas Leases with an Informed Bidder and a Random Reservation Price
Hendricks, Kenneth - 1990
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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Affiliation, equilibrium existence and revenue ranking of auctions
De Castro, Luciano I. - 2010
Affiliation has been a prominent assumption in the study of economic models with statistical dependence. Despite its … large number of applications, especially in auction theory, affiliation has limitations that are important to be aware of …. This paper shows that affiliation is a restrictive condition and the intuition usually given for its adoption may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282914
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Affiliation and dependence in economic models
de Castro, Luciano I. - 2009
Affiliation has been a prominent assumption in the study of economic models with statistical dependence. Despite its … large number of applications, especially in auction theory, affiliation has limitations that are important to be aware of …. This paper shows that affiliation is a restrictive condition and the intuition usually given for its adoption may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282939
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Relative performance evaluation in a multi-plant firm
Luporini, Annalisa - 2005
the single agent case. Then, we show that affiliation of the random variables is a necessary and sufficient condition for …
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
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Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture
Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C.M. - 2015
This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
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