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

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

evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …

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Incentives for discrimination

Mialon, Sue H.; Yoo, Seung Han - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 136 (2017), pp. 141-160

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Mergers between regulated firms with unknown efficiency gains

Fiocco, Raffaele; Guo, Gongyu - 2014

informational problems. We show that, as a consequence of this trade-off, more intense competition in unregulated segments of the … can lead to a softer merger policy when competition is weaker. …

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The 'Race Card' Revisited : Assessing Racial Priming in Policy Contests

Huber, Gregory; Lapinski, John S. - 2009

In The Race Card (2001),Mendelberg finds support for her theory that implicit racial appeals, but not explicit ones, prime racial resentment in opinion formation. She argues that citizens reject explicit appeals, rendering them ineffective, because they violate widespread egalitarian norms....

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Banks' Risk Race : A Signaling Explanation

Besancenot, Damien - 2011

Many observers argue that one of the major causes of the 2007-2009 financial turmoil was the abnormal accumulation of risk by banks. This paper provides a signaling explanation for this "risk race." If banks' returns can be observed while risk cannot, less efficient banks can hide their type by...

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Discrimination in promotion

Prummer, Anja - 2020

competition. If value is redistributed, the reduction in information rent outweighs the loss in competitiveness, making …

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Competition for a prize

Noll, Rob van der - 2006

I present a model in which individuals compete for a prize by choosing to apply or not. Abilities are private information and in attempt to select the best candidate, the committee compares applicants with an imperfect technology. The choice of application cost, size of the prize and use of...

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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014

We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our …

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2016

factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … identifiabilitiy (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to …-telling under competition. …

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A note on uniqueness in game-theoretic foundations of the reactive equilibrium

Mimra, Wanda; Wambach, Achim - 2014

Riley (1979)'s reactive equilibrium concept addresses problems of equilibrium existence in competitive markets with adverse selection. The game-theoretic interpretation of the reactive equilibrium concept in Engers and Fernandez (1987) yields the Rothschild-Stiglitz (1976)/Riley (1979)...

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