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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets with Sluggish Demand
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies …
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Gender differences in preferences of adolescents : evidence from a large-scale classroom experiment
Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János; Lénárd, Tünde - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 194 (2022), pp. 478-522
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Gender differences in preferences of adolescents : evidence from a large-scale classroom experiment
Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János; Lénárd, Tünde - 2021
In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by running incentivized experiments in Hungarian...
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Naturally occurring enhancements to competition for talent in teams
Ramalingam, Abhijit; Stoddard, Brock V.; Walker, James - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622301
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Naturally occurring enhancements to competition for talent in teams
Ramalingam, Abhijit; Stoddard, Brock V.; Walker, James - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604009
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Willingness to pay for unfamiliar public goods : preserving cold-water coral in Norway
Aanesen, Margrethe; Armstrong, Claire W.; Czajkowski, … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 112 (2015), pp. 53-67
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368
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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers
Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019
We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring … cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the … spatially differentiated competition is characterized by sorting, crowding-in, and an absence of spillovers: Donors sort …
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Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? : evidence from public good experiments
Bergantino, Angela Stefania; Gil-Gallen, Sara; Morone, … - In: Annals of public and cooperative economics 94 (2023) 1, pp. 39-73
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Rank-order competition in the voluntary provision of impure public goods
Angelovski, Andrej; Neugebauer, Tibor; Servátka, Maroš - 2019
design and test a provision mechanism which utilizes rank competition to mitigate free-riding in impure public goods. In our … receive restricted access (a lower share). In a laboratory experiment Rank-Order-VCM elicits median contributions equal to the … ranks, the contributions are significantly lower and decline over time. We thus provide evidence of rank competition, in …
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