Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which
agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These …

Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to
competition than men. Conditional on performance, men are often more eager to compete …

Firms play a crucial role in furthering social welfare through their ability to foster
stakeholders' contributions to joint value creation—value creation that involves a public …

We find strong evidence that three key dimensions of national culture (trust, hierarchy, and
individualism) affect merger volume and synergy gains. The volume of cross-border mergers …

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor
market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is …

Gender differences in choosing to enter competitions are one source of unequal labor
market outcomes concerning wages and promotions. Given that studying the effects of policy …

This paper reports on an empirical comparison of two prominent measures of individual risk
attitudes–the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire …

Individuals sort into and out of economic environments based on their preferences and in
response to relative prices. We demonstrate the importance of such sorting for the …

This study highlights the relevance of gender differences in competitiveness for the gender
gap in latent and nascent entrepreneurship. Using data obtained from a recent large-scale …

Competition between individuals permeates people's lives as they strive for limited
resources, services, and status. However, research on competition and competitiveness in …