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This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The …
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In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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on the incentives to report information truthfully is non monotone, and correlation may discipline senders' equilibrium …
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This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …
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crucial to prioritise participation incentives for all countries, especially those without explicit or with insufficient … abatement targets. This paper offers a bottom-up game-theoretic perspective on participation incentives. Rather than focusing on … issue linkage, transfers or burden sharing as tools to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement, this …
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cooperative effort to control GHG emissions can provide adequate incentives for the US to move back to the Kyoto process and … assesses the participation incentives for the major world countries and regions in these three regimes. …
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+ (REDD+) scheme as a contractual relationship between countries in the light of the theory of incentives. Considering …
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We study the problem of an investor that buys an equity stake in an entrepreneurial venture, under the assumption that the former cannot monitor the latter’s operations. The dynamics implied by the optimal incentive scheme is rich and quite different from that induced by other models of...
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schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically affected, as more individuals manipulate their preferentes. Including a safety …
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We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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