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Threatening thresholds? : the effect of disastrous regime shifts on the cooperative and non-cooperative use of environmental goods and services
Diekert, Florian K. - 2015
This paper presents an analytically tractable dynamic game in which players jointly use a resource. The resource replenishes fully but collapses should total use exceed a threshold in any one period. The initial level of use is known to be safe. If it is at all optimal to increase resource use,...
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …
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Social ties in a public good experiment
Dijk, Frans van; Sonnemans, Joep; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experimental design consists of three parts. In the first part the value orientation (attitude to a generalized other) is measured. In the second part couples play a multi-period public good...
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Optimal education with mobile capital : an OLG approach
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2000
The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations economies with intergenerational transfers carried out in the form of bequest and investment in human capital. The authors examine in competitive equlibrium the optimal provision of education with and without capital markets...
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Tax competition and international public goods
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2000
A well known result in the tax competition literature is that tax rates are set too low in the Nash equilibrium to finance an efficient level of public consumption goods. In this model we introduce international spillovers in public goods provision and show that such spillovers reduce, and in...
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Democratic mechanisms : double majority rules and flexible agenda costs
Gersbach, Hans - 2002
We introduce democratic mechanisms where individual utilities are not observable by other people at the legislative stage. We show that the combination of three rules can yield e±cient provision of public projects: first, flexible and double majority rules where the size of the majority depends...
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne (contributor) - 2009
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start of high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will selfselect into groups committed to charitable...
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Cooperation is relative : income and framing effects with public goods
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Konow, James Douglas; Nyborg, Karine - 2012 - Publisert 21. mai. 2012 14:32 - Sist endret 21. mai. 2012 14:33
In social dilemmas, there is tension between cooperation that promotes the common good and the pursuit of individual interests. International climate change negotiations provide one example: although abatement costs are borne by individual countries, the benefits are shared globally. We study a...
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Destructive intergenerational altruism
Asheim, Geir B.; Nesje, Frikk - 2015 - Last modified Dec 17, 2015
Are the probable future negative effects of climate change an argument for decreasing the discount rate to promote the interests of future generations? The analysis of the present paper suggests that such stronger intergenerational altruism might undermine future wellbeing if not complemented by...
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