whether or not economic competitions in the laboratory indeed elicit physiological stress reactions. Our study examined the … subjectively perceived stress and the physiological changes induced by a well-established economic laboratory competition paradigm … subjective and physiological reactions that are indicative of mild stress. Furthermore, reactions that are thought to reflect an …

differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly. Treatments are time pressure within the task and distractions through a … second task (a Stroop-task) that has to be performed as well and influences payment. We measure stress levels through salivary … raise physiological stress levels of subjects within our task. More importantly from an economic perspective, we can also …