We design an all-pay auction experiment in which we reveal the gender of the opponent Using this design, we find that women bid higher than men, but only when bidding against other women

​Real estate price appreciation can lessen firm’s financial constraint by increasing its collateral value This paper studies this channel by utilizing a large firm-level dataset during the 2000-2007 period on Chinese firms

This paper studies the optimal-ring-size problem in a first-price auction environment, where a collusive ring center can endogenously choose the number of its members

The debate between pro- and anti-international adoption advocates relies heavily on rhetoric and little on data analysis

In a transitional economy such as China’s, when resources are unevenly distributed across different sectors, the disadvantaged sector may seek a growth path that bypasses resource constraints

This study investigates the relationship between product market competition and the market value of innovation using firm-level patent data of US firms over the period 1977-2005

Conventional wisdom says investors dislike uncertainty A CEO succession presents a time of enormous corporate uncertainty — and thus a time when investors may become especially skittish

Theoretic and empirical studies argue that the differences in financial mar- ket development contribute to varying export levels in international trade

Prior studies have found a robust correlation in the education of dating and married couples

This paper provides new evidence of the effects of child gender on parental labor market outcomes