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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468335
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468340
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Costly Voting: Theoretical and Experimental Results on Commons Dilemmas in Spatial Committee Games
Wilson, Rick K.; Herzberg, Roberta; Elliott, Mark - 1993
"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468404
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Why Fairness? Facial Expressions, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Emergence of Fairness in Simple Bargaining Games
Eckel, Catherine; Wilson, Rick K. - 1999
"One of the successes in contemporary social science is the development and proliferation of game theory. For a wide … range of phenomena, game theory produces enormous insight into the strategic interaction of individuals. Its greatest power …, information aggregation or when confronting large-scale social dilemmas. However, as Ostrom (1998) reminds us, game theory also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468443
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Risk Preference, Correlation Choice, Sabotage, and the Design of Promotion Tournaments
Yumoto, Yuji - 2003
the loser-selecting tournament, which means the promotion ratio is more than one-half, workers prefer a low risk approach … or a common approach which peers also know well; on the other hand, under the winner-selecting tournament, which means … results suggest that the loser-selecting tournament is more efficient than the winner-selecting tournament in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431285
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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002
Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468400
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468491
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Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities
Klimenko, Mikhail; Saggi, Kamal - Georgia Institute of Technology; Southern Methodist … - 2004
This paper examines the preferences of a foreign firm and awelfare-maximizing host country government over two modes of foreigndirect investment (FDI): de novo entry by the foreign firm andacquisition of the domestic incumbent. Two crucial features of the modelare the presence of network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435076
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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction
Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2004
This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We examine the impact oftechnological and regulatory change on market structure and businessstrategy. Among others, we discuss the emergence and decline of thetelecom bubble, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435083