Nisvan Erkal

University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics

Victoria , 3010

Australia

http://www.nisvanerkal.net

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Scholarly Papers (26)

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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Aug 2005
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, University of Auckland Business School, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Melbourne - Department of Economics
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Corruption, experiments, punishment, cultural analysis

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Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default Break the Glass Ceiling?

Number of pages: 109 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2021
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Erte Xiao
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and Monash University
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Gender inequality; Glass ceiling; Leadership selection; Defaults; Laboratory experiments

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Gender, Culture, and Corruption: Insights from an Experimental Analysis

Southern Economic Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Feb 2008
World Bank - Jakarta, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, University of Auckland Business School, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Melbourne - Department of Economics
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Gender, Corruption, Experiments, Punishment, Multicultural Analysis

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Discrimination in Evaluation Criteria: The Role of Beliefs versus Outcomes

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2024
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
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Gender gaps, Discrimination, Evaluation criteria, Biases in beliefs, Outcome bias, Social preferences, Laboratory experiments JEL Classification: C92, D91, J71

Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use It, Lose It, or Bank It

Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference – Innovation and Economic Growth, 2010
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2011
Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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Scarce ideas, imagination, innovation, real options, search models, rewards to R&D, unknown hazard rate

Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it

NBER Working Paper No. w14940
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 May 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
Downloads 55 (789,096)
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Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Jan 2009
Central Bank of Colombia (Banco de la República), School of Economics, University of Sydney and University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
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cultural transmission, attitudes, intergenerational welfare receipt

Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3904
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Dec 2008
Central Bank of Colombia (Banco de la República), School of Economics, University of Sydney and University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
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cultural transmission, attitudes, intergenerational welfare receipt

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Aggregative Games and Oligopoly Theory: Short-run and Long-run Analysis

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 Oct 2018
University of Virginia - Department of Economics, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and Brick Court Chambers
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Aggregative Games, Comparative Statics, Oligopoly Theory, Monopolistic Competition, Entry, Strategic Substitutes and Complements, IIA Property, Additively Separable Direct and Indirect Utility Functions, Logit/CES; Mergers, Cournot

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Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives in Real-Effort Tournaments

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Sep 2017
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
Downloads 219 (290,580)
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Real-effort tasks; Laboratory experiments; Contests; Non-monetary incentives; Monetary incentives

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Belief Elicitation with Binary Outcomes: A Comparison of Quadratic and Binarized Scoring Rules

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2020
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
Downloads 198 (319,445)
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Belief elicitation, Risk preferences, Experimental methodology, Scoring rules, Prediction accuracy

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By Chance or by Choice? Biased Attribution of Others' Outcomes when Social Preferences Matter

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 11 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
Downloads 194 (325,422)
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Decision-making under risk; Beliefs about others' decisions; Attribution biases; Social preferences; Consensus effect; Experiments

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The Decision to Patent, Cumulative Innovation, and Optimal Policy

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Nisvan Erkal
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Cumulative innovation, patenting decision, patent policy, antitrust policy

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Do Women Receive Less Blame Than Men? Attribution of Outcomes in a Prosocial Setting

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
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Gender biases, Beliefs, Attribution biases, Leadership, Social preferences, Laboratory experiments

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An Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Incentives to Share Knowledge

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Oct 2009
Cary A. Deck and Nisvan Erkal
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
Downloads 141 (428,310)
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experiments, multi-stage R&D, stochastic R&D, cooperative R&D, knowledge sharing, research joint ventures

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Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal R&D Policy *

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2024
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, United States Department of Justice and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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O34, K00, L00 Scarcity of ideas, unknown hazard rate, innovation, real options, rewards to R&D

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Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2015
Nisvan Erkal and Deborah Minehart
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and Government of the United States of America - Department of Justice
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multi-stage R&D, innovation, knowledge sharing, licensing, dynamic games

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Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6467
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 116 (498,859)
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acculturation, cultural assimilation, cultural diversity, cultural transmission, cultural integration, immigration, social preferences, preferences for competition, risk aversion

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Using Milestones as a Source of Feedback in Teamwork: Insights from a Dynamic Voluntary Contribution Mechanism

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 14 Sep 2023
Nisvan Erkal, Boon Han Koh and Nguyen Lam
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Exeter and University of Melbourne
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Teamwork, public good provision, milestones, feedback, voluntary contribution mechanism

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Gender Differences in Attribution of Own Outcomes

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Sep 2024
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
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Horizontal Merger Analysis with Endogenous Product Range Choice

ISER DP No.1162
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Mar 2022
Nisvan Erkal and Lijun Pan
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and Nanjing University - School of Economics
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Antitrust Policy, Merger Analysis, Multiproduct Firms, Product Range Choice, Entry, Cost Synergies

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Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal Prizes in Innovation Contests

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 11 Oct 2021
Nisvan Erkal and Jun Xiao
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
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innovation, idea distribution, contests, comparative statics, stochastic dominance

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Gender Differences in Attribution of Others' Outcomes

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Sep 2024
Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and University of Exeter
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Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8704
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Dec 2014
Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu and Brian E. Roe
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Purdue University - College of Agriculture and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics
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incomplete contract, relational contract, endogenous incompleteness, informal incentives, experimental economics

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Cooperative R&D Under Uncertainty with Free Entry

International Journal of Industrial Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Jul 2009
Nisvan Erkal and Daniel Piccinin
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and Brick Court Chambers
Downloads 62 (729,540)
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Cooperative R&D, research joint ventures, free entry, uncertain R&D, technology spillovers

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Gender and Demand for Social Comparison Information

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Dec 2024
Nisvan Erkal, Boon Han Koh and Lingguo XU
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Exeter and The University of Melbourne
Downloads 38 (904,479)

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Demand for information, Information avoidance, Social comparison, Gender differences

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Gender and (inaccurate) beliefs

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 18 Jul 2024
Nisvan Erkal and Boon Han Koh
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Exeter
Downloads 25 (1,038,197)

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Gender gaps, Biases in beliefs, Discrimination, Stereotypes, Experiments

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Aggregate Oligopoly Games with Entry

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9511
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Jun 2013
University of Virginia - Department of Economics, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics and Brick Court Chambers
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aggregative games, contests, Cournot, entry, IIA property, leadership, Logit/CES, mergers, monopolistic competition, oligopoly theory, R&D, strategic substitutes and complements