Browsing by Author "Mechtenberg, Lydia"

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2011-03-03Buch

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

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Münster, Johannes

This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve ...
2006-03-03Buch

Cheap Talk in the Classroom

Mechtenberg, Lydia

In this paper, I offer a theoretical explanation of the robust gender differences in educational achievement distributions of school children. I consider a one shot cheap talk game with two different types of senders (biased ...
2013-01-31Buch

‘I'll do it by myself as I knew it all along’

Danz, David; Hüber, Frank; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Schmid, Julia

With the help of a simple model, we show that the hindsight bias can lead to ineffcient delegation decisions. This prediction is tested experimentally. In an online experiment that was conducted during the FIFA World Cup ...
2007-04-23Buch

Ideology Without Ideologists

Mechtenberg, Lydia

Generally, Democrats do not increase military spending, and Republicans do not raise welfare payments. Mostly, ruling politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation ...
2009-10-21Buch

Migration of the Highly Skilled

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland

We develop a model to analyze the determinants and effects of an endogenous imperfect transferability of human capital on natives and immigrants. The model reveals that high migration flows and high skill-transferability ...
2014-04-01Buch

Peer Effects andStudents’ Self-Control

Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia

We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and selfcontrol among undergraduate students. We use a behavioral measure of self-control based on whether students achieve study related ...
2006-03-02Buch

The Bologna Process

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland

We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna Process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi–cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: 1) a ...
2007-12-17Buch

Why Votes Have a Value

Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; Mechtenberg, Lydia

We perform an experiment where subjects pay for the right to participate in a shareholder vote. We find that experimental subjects are willing to pay a significant premium for the voting right even though there should be ...
2008-12-18Buch

Winners and Losers of Early Elections:On the Welfare Implications of Political Blockades and Early Elections

Bierbrauer, Felix; Mechtenberg, Lydia

We develop a dynamic model of political competition. Each party has a policymotivated ideological wing and an office-motivated opportunistic wing. A blockade arises if inner-party conflict stops policy implementation. We ...