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Discrimination as a competitive device : the case of local television news

Myers, Caitlin K. (contributor) - 2005

. -- economics of gender and minorities ; customer discrimination ; product …

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Non-Exclusive Competition in the Market for Lemons

Attar, Andrea; Mariotti, Thomas; Salanié, François - 2009

We consider an exchange economy in which a seller can trade an endowment of a divisible good whose quality she privately knows. Buyers compete in menus of non-exclusive contracts, so that the seller may choose to trade with several buyers. In this context, we show that an equilibrium always...

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Negative externalities and equilibrium existence in competitive markets with adverse selection

Siemens, Ferdinand von; Kosfeld, Michael - 2009

Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a contract depends on the average type attracted by the...

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Competition and Price Transparency in the Market for Lemons : Experimental Evidence

Bochet, Olivier - 2020

In markets with asymmetric information, where equilibria are often inefficient, bargaining can help promote welfare. We design an experiment to examine the impact of competition and price transparency in such settings. Consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find that competition...

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Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection

von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2009

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Discrimination in the Labor Market : The Curse of Competition between Workers

de Haan, Thomas - 2015

In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers' beliefs about workers' behavior induce different … statistical discrimination occurs. We confirm the experimental results of Fryer, Goeree and Holt (2005) who do not find systematic … evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce …

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Discrimination in the labor market : the curse of competition between workers

Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011

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Market competition and discrimination

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This … suggests that market competition can eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers. …

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Market Competition and Discrimination

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

Becker (1957) famously postulated that taste-based discrimination should disappear in the long run if the market … local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This suggests that market competition can … eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers …

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The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China : 1988-1995

Démurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; Chen, Yi - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against … loosening of the government's egalitarian wage setting policies, leaving more space for discrimination in state …

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