Search Results - "Mechtenberg, Lydia"

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Competition for Context-Sensitive Consumers

by Apffelstaedt, Arno Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in Management science (01.05.2021)

“...When preferences are sensitive to context, firms may influence purchase decisions by designing the environment of consumption choices. This paper studies how...”

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Cheap talk in the classroom: How biased grading at school explains gender differences in achievements, career choices and wages

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in The Review of economic studies (2009)

“...In this paper, I provide a theoretical explanation for the gender differences in education and on the labour market that are observed empirically in most OECD...”

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On the Failure of Hindsight-Biased Principals to Delegate Optimally

by Danz, David Kübler, Dorothea Mechtenberg, Lydia Schmid, Julia Published in Management science (01.08.2015)

“...With the help of a simple model, we show that the hindsight bias can lead to inefficient delegation decisions. This prediction is tested experimentally. In an...”

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Why votes have value: Instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors

by Dittmann, Ingolf Kübler, Dorothea Maug, Ernst Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in Games and economic behavior (01.03.2014)

“...We perform an experiment in which subjects bid for participating in a vote. The setting precludes conflicts of interests or direct benefits from voting. The...”

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When Do Conflicting Parties Share Political Power?

by Battaglini, Marco Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in Journal of experimental political science (20150000)

“...We conduct a laboratory experiment to study the incentives of a privileged group (the “yellows”) to share political power with another group (the “blues”). The...”

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A strategic mediator who is biased in the same direction as the expert can improve information transmission

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Münster, Johannes Published in Economics letters (01.11.2012)

“...We model strategic mediation of the communication between an informed expert with a discrete type space and an uninformed decision maker. A strategic mediator...”

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Migration of the Talented: Can Europe Catch Up with the U.S.?
Received September 28, 2010; Accepted February 21, 2011.

by MECHTENBERG, LYDIA STRAUSZ, ROLAND Published in Journal of public economic theory (01.12.2012)

“...We develop a model to analyze migration of highly talented individuals within and into Europe. First, we show that if transferability of human capital is...”

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The Bologna process: How student mobility affects multi-cultural skills and educational quality

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Strausz, Roland Published in International tax and public finance (2008)

“...We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi-cultural skills and increasing...”

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Whistle-blower protection: theory and experimental evidence

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Mühlheußer, Gerd ¬[Verfasser] Roider, Andreas ¬[Verfasser]
2017

“...Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing...”

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The swing voter's curse in social networks

by Buechel, Berno Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in Games and economic behavior (01.11.2019)

“...We study communication in social networks prior to a majority vote on two alternative policies. Some agents receive a private imperfect signal about which...”

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The Stability Theory of Knowledge and Belief Revision: Comments on Rott

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in Erkenntnis (01.11.2004)

“...In this commentary on Rott's paper "Stability, Strength and Sensitivity: Converting Belief into Knowledge", I discuss two problems of the stability theory of...”

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Voter motivation and the quality of democratic choice

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Tyran, Jean-Robert Published in Games and economic behavior (01.07.2019)

“...The efficiency of committee voting and referenda with common-interest issues critically depends on voter motivation, i.e., on voters' willingness to cast an...”

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Whistleblower protection: Theory and experimental evidence

by Mechtenberg, Lydia Muehlheusser, Gerd Roider, Andreas Published in European economic review (01.07.2020)

“...Whistleblowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Recent laws and global policy recommendations aim at facilitating whistleblower...”

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If I can do it, so can you! Peer effects on perseverance

by Buechel, Berno Mechtenberg, Lydia Petersen, Julia Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (01.11.2018)

“...•Perseverance in a depleting real-effort task is affected by successful peers.•Being observed by peers reduces the tendency of giving up immediately.•Observing...”

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Deliberative structures and their impact on voting under economic conflict

by Brandts, Jordi Gerhards, Leonie Mechtenberg, Lydia Published in Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association (15.09.2021)

“...AbstractWe conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate how different deliberative structures of varying inclusiveness affect collective decisions in the...”

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Why votes have value : instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors

by Dittmann, Ingolf Kübler, Dorothea Maug, Ernst Mechtenberg, Lydia
2014

“...We perform an experiment in which subjects bid for participating in a vote. The setting precludes conflicts of interests or direct benefits from voting. The...”

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