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Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
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of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is … between altruists and selfish individuals is vital to human cooperation. Depending on the environment, a minority of altruists … altruists to defect. Current gene-based evolutionary theories cannot explain important patterns of human altruism, pointing …
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Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms …
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organized before some of the games was used as an additional control. Our results show that the degree of cooperation is rather …
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Private incentives to invest in a public good are modeled as self- interested reciprocity where individuals use reputational scoring rules to determine their optimal level of investment. The model predicts that the disposition of any subject to cooperate is revealed by their first period...
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cooperation and coordination within teams. Using artificial agents, different social contests are created, as training …
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People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...
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We introduce a class of two-player cooperation games where each player faces a binary decision, enter or exit. These … exiting. When the game is repeated and players' values to entry are private, cooperation admits the form of either taking … optimal symmetric cutoff strategy. These games capture the nature of cooperation in many economic and social situations such …
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This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. Earlier studies frequently report contradictory estimates of the response of company...
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Charities publicize the donations they receive, generally according to dollar categories rather than the exact amount. Donors in turn tend to give the minimum amount necessary to get into a category. These facts suggest that donors have a taste for having their donations made public. This paper...
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