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This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our experimental results show that when a game includes...
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Competition among producers within an integrated electricity system is impeded by any limited transmission capacity …
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We consider two alternatives to inaction for governments combating terrorism, which we term Deterrence and Prevention. Deterrence – investing in resources that reduce the impact of an attack – generates a negative externality to other governments, making their countries a more attractive...
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normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller effect on later competition in the product market if they serve as a …
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Dramatic events can evoke feelings of compassion, fear, or threat, and can affect public opinion regarding controversial issues. Such an event was the drowning of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish shore, and was photographed, producing an iconic image that was...
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Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to competition than men. Conditional on … competition. This means that few women enter and win competitions. We review studies that examine the robustness of these … toward competition. Gender differences in risk aversion, however, seem to play a smaller and less robust role. We conclude by …
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
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schemes. Our results are affirmative. We show that the more individuals are inequity and competition averse, (i) the lower is …
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The outbreak of COVID-19 generated an unprecedented shock in the short-term rental market. Here we use data from Airbnb to examine whether gender influences en- trepreneurs’ reactions to this large economic shock. Our identification strategy relies on the price adjustments operated by...
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The general topic of the paper is the use of the crowd to interpret text, and the power of that interpretation to predict future events. This topic is addressed through an experiment, in which news sentiment is evaluated by crowds and experts in different configurations. Their classifications...
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