the extent of imperfect competition in the intermediate products market affects both economic growth and the allocation of …

We study the effects of reputation and competition in a trust game. If trustees are anonymous, outcomes are poor … trusteesʼ complete history has, somewhat surprisingly, no effect. On the other hand, we find that competition, coupled with some …

, while competition causes segregation within cooperative profiles. …

’s returned amount. We allow for heterogeneous effects of competition for strangers and artificially induced partners. The results … of our one-shot trust games show that introducing competition among trustors reduces return ratios of the trustee. We do … not find any evidence for statistically different effects of competition for partners and strangers. …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors, where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in … this is related to incentives. We can show that the sex difference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …

competition leads to more cost-reducing investments. The framework can, for instance, capture increasing substitutability for … different types of oligopoly models or changes from Cournot to Bertrand competition. The paper identifies four transmission … mechanisms by which competition affects investment. For a firm with lower initial marginal costs (higher efficiency), a positive …