Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … 1970-2000 period. Controlling for fixed effects as well as endogeneity, the results show a significant effect of openness … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …

sensitivity to lagged region-specific income. Also, excess sensitivity is inversely related to standard measures of openness and …

A large and growing literature on reputation in games builds on the insight that the possibility of one or more players …

trust and cooperation through reputation and without an external enforcer is an open question. We therefore explore through …-shot trust game with a reputation mechanism. In every interaction, a buyer has complete information about a seller's past … the one hand, some minimal fraction of buyers must make use of the sellers’ reputation in their buying strategies and, on …

are not provided by the firm), such as tips, satisfaction from working well, or the desire to build reputation in order to …

reputation of other, unknown agents. The multi-agent system AVALANCHE is a prototype for an agent-based secure electronic … commerce marketplace environment. The reputation tracking mechanism, which is implemented in AVALANCHE’s software agents …