This paper investigates the implications of the unequal division of the domestic labor in men and women participation and incentives to exert effort in competitive relations, in which the labor market is the main example. We found that moderate levels of affirmative action (bias in favor of...

Several occupations are male-dominated while others are women-dominated, and gender-based segregation shows great resistance to change. Researchers attribute it to secular stereotypes, socialization practices and gender-constructed roles. This paper attempts to establish an economic rationale...

Companies are increasingly using data to predict behavior, automate and improve the relation with their customers. In this context, data exchange rises important concerns regarding competition, concentration and welfare. This paper presents a novel linear demand model that capture data and...

The number of situations that require individual judgements and evaluations, and that can be object of different sources of conscious and unconscious biases is endless. This paper proposes a practical scores aggregation procedure that attempts to reduce and mitigate the influence of bias in...

In bargaining and negotiations, should one make the first offer or wait for the opponent to do it? Practitioners support the idea that moving first in bargaining is a mistake, while researchers find strong evidence that first-movers benefit from an anchor effect. This paper addresses these...

Real life disputes, negotiations or competitive situations involve multi-issue considerations; the final outcome depends on the aggregated effort over several dimensions. We consider two allocation systems. In one, each issue is disputed and award independently, while in the other all issues are...

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest, by competition agencies, in assessing the competitive effects of partial acquisitions. We propose a generalization of the two most traditional indicators used to screen unilateral anti-competitive effects - the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and the...

This paper examines different Brownian information structures for varying time intervals. We focus on the non-limit case and on the trade-offs between information quantity and quality to efficiently establish incentives. These two dimensions of information tend to complement each other when...

In some markets, consumers do not know the attributes of all the products that are available in the market, or the prices at which they are offered. To reduce this uncertainty consumers may, at a cost, gather and process information about the attributes and prices of the different products. The...

The complexity and subjectivity of the judgement task conceals the existence of biases that undermines the quality of the process. This paper presents a weighted aggregation function that attempts to reduce the influence of biased judgements on the final score. We also discuss a set of desirable...