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Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010 - This draft: May, 2010

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … economic performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred differential gains from trade …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …

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Market size, competition, and the product mix of exporters

Mayer, Thierry; Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2011

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What can facilitate cooperation : fairness, ineaulity aversion, punishment, norms or trust?

Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2008

Almost all economic and public choice models assume that all people are exclusively pursuing their own material self-interests and do not care about "social" goals per se. Several (laboratory) experiments address the question of the general validity of this assumption. A consistent conclusion...

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Religious organizations

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - 2010 - This version: November 2009

We propose a model of religious organizations which relies on the ability of such organi-zations and personal utility shocks. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously and characterize their features. Specifically, we find that members of the religious organization share similar...

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Incentives and stability of international climate coalitions : an integrated assessment

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; … - 2011

This paper analyses the incentives to participate in and the stability of international climate coalitions. Using the integrated assessment model WITCH, the analysis of coalitions' profitability and stability is performed under alternative assumptions concerning the pure rate of time preference,...

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The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in interorganisational cooperation : conceptual and historical aspect of cooperation in peace and security

Umezawa, Hana - 2013

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Trust, collaboration, and policy attitudes in the public sector

Keefer, Philip; Perilla, Sergio; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2021

This paper examines new data on public sector employees from 18 Latin American countries to shed light on the role of trust in the performance of government agencies. We developed an original survey taken during the first COVID-19 wave that includes randomized experiments with pandemic-related...

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The transmission of sustainable harvesting norms when agents are conditionally cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - 2013 - Draft version: 15 May 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Comment on “Promises and partnership"

Deck, Cary A.; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven James - 2011

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Optimal switching from competition to cooperation : a preliminary exploration

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