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TO THE ECONOMIC ACTION AND FOR COOPERATION. …
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hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our experiments, and that third parties, whose … cooperation norm. Thus, our results show that the notion of strong reciprocity extends to the sanctioning behavior of ‘‘unaffected …
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Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...
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Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...
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This paper aims to analyse the vision of Karl Polanyi about the creation of markets. The importance of markets in societies, social relations, and capitalism.
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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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of those gains. Incentive contracting in these environments does not crowd-out off- equilibrium cooperation, and at high … incentive levels cooperation is crowded in. …
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The Coasean way to deal with the cooperation failure that is implicit in Pareto inefficiency is to remove or lessen the … obstacles to cooperation through the attribution of property rights and the elimination or reduction of transaction costs. The … enhance the opportunities for cooperation through voluntary agreements involving private and public parties. Thus the extent …
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prospects for cooperation given the need for the firm to learn the environment and its rival's output. We show how a firm …'s profit and cooperation rates are affected by its size, its rival's size and willingness to cooperate and environmental …
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