prizes. The theoretical predictions are highly sensitive: small parameter changes determine whether technological competition … highest when rivals are close. This stylized fact, and so the usefulness of neck-to-neck competition in general, is largely …

different treatments: a complete information treatment and two treatments designed to simulate distributed systems like the … Internet with extremely limited information, synchronous and asynchronous moves. Although both games are dominance-solvable and … the proportion of equilibrium play is statistically indistinguishable under complete information, their performance does …

expected outcomes or carry the same information on other's intentions while they have different outcome-invariant properties …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i ….e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …

issues is an ‘experimentally-adapted’ CV survey which involves laboratory experiment conducted among Ghanaian University … students. Notwithstanding the limitations arising from the sample used in our experiment (most notably University students do …