of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the … men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …

Cooperation and competition are both essential elements of economic life. Here we explore how cooperativeness in a …

Cooperation and competition are both essential elements of economic life. Here we explore how cooperation in a prisoner …

The paper introduces a novel experimental procedure to elicit individual preferences for competition. In contrast to … the competitiveness measure by Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), the design disentangles preferences for competition from … financial, risk preference and expectation effects. In the baseline experiment, the existence of gender differences in …

I investigate whether two mechanisms leading to biased beliefs about success, overconfidence and competition neglect … making their decision. Second, I vary whether the competition group consists of all potential competitors or only of … are no significant gender differences. …

luck and whether there is competition for a high income. In the luck treatments, just deserts would imply that subjects aim … subjects from cheating for their personal gain. Competition has no systematic effect on cheating. …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …