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Competition Universalism : Its Historical Origins and Timely Alternatives
Gräbner, Claudius; Puehringer, Stephan - 2021
This paper discusses the actual relevance and historical origins or ‘competition universalism’. In economics, competition is conceptualized as a nearly ubiquitous element of societies, or, at least, used to study a wide array of social and political relations, including competition between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224704
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Competition universalism: its historical origins and timely alternatives
Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Pühringer, Stephan - 2021
This paper discusses the actual relevance and historical origins or 'competition universalism'. In economics, competition is conceptualized as a nearly ubiquitous element of societies, or, at least, used to study a wide array of social and political relations, including competition between firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521091
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Gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in high-stakes competitions : evidence from freediving contests
Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020
This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on average, are less likely than men to overestimate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295922
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Gender, emotions, and tournament performance in the laboratory
Halladay, Brianna - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-26
Individuals face competitive environments daily, and it is important to understand how emotions affect behavior in … reported emotions in tournament performance and assess how the behavioral response differs across genders. The first stage … serves to induce emotions, while the second stage presents the subject with a one-on-one winner-take-all tournament with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709205
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Strategic Competition and Self-Confidence
Brilon, Stefanie - 2019
We test the hypothesis that strategic interactions foster overconfidence. We experimentally compare an environment where players have an incentive to overstate their own ability to deter competitors, with one where this incentive is removed. We find that overconfidence persists in the former...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859977
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Competitive markets, corporate firms, and new governance - an ordonomic conceptualization
Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - 2009
The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenship and new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weaken but instead strengthens the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786669
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Competitive Markets, Corporate Firms, and New Governance - an Ordonomic Conceptualization
Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - 2009
The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenship and new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weaken but instead strengthens the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200049
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Competitive markets, corporate firms, and new governance - an ordonomic conceptualization
Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892704
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Intention-based fairness preferences in two-player contests
Hoffmann, Magnus; Kolmar, Martin - 2013
We analyze equilibria of two-player contests where players have intention-based preferences. We find that players invest more effort compared to the case with selfish preferences and are even willing to exert effort when the monetary value of the prize converges to zero. As a consequence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702885
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515418