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Converse Tournaments
(Ege Univ Fac Economics & Admin Sciences, 2019)
This paper proposes two alternatives to Clark and Riis (1998b)'s sequential model of nested multiple-prize contests. First we consider winning prizes endogenously determined by exerted contest efforts. Second we extend the ...
The role of intangible assets in explaining the investment-profit puzzle
(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)
Starting around the early 2000s, and especially after the 2008 crisis, the rate of capital accumulation for US nonfinancial corporations has slowed down despite relatively high profitability; indicating a weakening of the ...
Sabotage in team contests
(Springer, 2019)
In the contest literature sabotage is defined as a deliberate and costly activity that damages the opponent's likelihood of winning the contest. Most of the existing results suggest that anticipating a possible sabotage ...
Determinants of Investment in Turkey: A Firm-Level Investigation
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)
In this article we analyze the financing constraints-investment link for the case of Turkey between 1996 and 2013. As different from the existing studies on Turkey we use a more comprehensive data set that includes both ...
Ethnic fractionalization conflict and educational development in Turkey
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019)
We examine the impact of ethnic fractionalization and conflict on limiting the educational development in Southeastern Turkey. Our estimates show that although the armed conflict in the region did not directly hinder ...
Investment on human capital in a dynamic contest model
(Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, 2019)
Although most contest games are modeled in such a way that the outcome depends only on the efforts exerted by the contestants what is arguably more important is the contestants' effective efforts which may be influenced ...
Between anchors and aspirations: a new family of bargaining solutions
(Springer, 2019)
We study the salience and power of reference points in determining the effective anchors and aspirations in bargaining problems. Along this line we enrich the analysis of the standard bargaining model with two new parameters: ...
On (mis-)perception of probabilities in first-price sealed-bid auctions
(Economics Bulletin, 2019)
We study a two-stage probability weighting model [see Tversky and Fox 1995] in a first-price sealed-bid auction. We present the unique symmetric equilibrium and provide some experimental support for our model.
Does migration contribute to women's empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)
This article empirically investigates the impact of internal migration on women's empowerment in urban areas of Turkey. Based on data from a nationally representative household survey we find that migration exerts a positive ...
Perceived Happiness, Perceived Trust and Perceived Income Levels: The Case of the Reunified Germany
(Savez Ekonomista Vojvodine, 2019)
This study explored the possible impact of perceived income on individual (perceived) happiness in Eastern and Western Germany in relation to perceived trust and four socio-economic variables, namely gender, age, marital ...