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Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid...

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The Visible Hand: Finger ratio (2D:4D) and competitive behavior

Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

reported to predict competitiveness in sports competition (Manning and Taylor, 2001, and Hoenekopp, Manning and Mueller, 2006 …

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COMPETITIVENESS, MICROECONOMIC REFORM AND THE CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT.

FORSYTH, P.J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1990

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THE EUROPEAN ENERGY MARKET AT THE CROSSROADS

Ilie, Livia; Horobet, Alexandra - In: Studies in Business and Economics 2 (2007) 2, pp. 41-45

competition and to recommend improvements of the system in order to balance the issues of competition, energy security and …

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The Effects of School Competition on Academic Achievement and Grading Standards

Himmler, Oliver - CESifo - 2009

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …

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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009

factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs due to the significant competition in the corporate …

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Do markup dynamics reflect fundamentals or changes in conduct?

Juselius, Mikael; Kim, Moshe; Ringbom, Staffan - Suomen Pankki - 2009

of conduct, related markups and intensity of competition. We develop a cointegrated VAR (vector autoregression) based …

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Market Competition, Institutions, and Contracting Outcomes: Preliminary Model and Experimental Results

MacDonald, James M.; Wu, Steven Y. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

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GLOBALIZATION AND PERFORMANCES IN BANKING ACTIVITY

Spulbar, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D Cristi Marcel; Gherghinescu, … - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2009) 12, pp. 50-60

Each area is influenced by globalization and the financial markets are not only an exception but these can be considered a real engine of the globalization. It is obvious that we can’t talk only about a national market but of a financial market which works at a global level. The present events...

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Price Competition in Border and Non-Border Areas: The Case of the Dutch Market of Gasoline Retailers

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schut, Frederik T. - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 54 (2008) 2, pp. 95-122

This article investigates the extent of price competition in different geographical markets of gasoline retailers in … that data on price levels and the degree of price dispersion can be sufficient to estimate the extent of price competition … competition was stronger in the border than in non-border areas, price competition was not very effective in constraining prices …

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