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This paper empirically analyzes how performance feedback and information on heterogeneity affect behavior in dynamic contests, using data on two-player-contests from a smartphone/tablet application called ``Wordblitz for Friends''. We find that players increase output as underdogs and decrease...
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competition games are initially conducted whereby students only choose prices. Then, student strategy space is relaxed to include … more learning content: asymmetric information, brand loyalty, market share dominance, exit gains through liquidation …. Economic principles are contrasted with classroom game outcomes. Findings indicate better learning outcomes through specific …
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men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …
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. We find that basal heart rate variability, a proxy for chronic stress, and acute competition-induced changes in heart … rate variability predict self-selection into competition. Moreover, we observe that basal heart rate variability predicts … self-selection into competition for women, but not for men. Overall, we find tentative evidence for gender differences in …
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endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (policy experimentation), future political competition … unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters payoffs, but they have …
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