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The Survival of the Conformist: Social Pressure and Renewable Resource Management

Tavoni, Alessandro; Schlüter, Maja; Levin, Simon - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper examines the role of pro-social behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling resource stock dynamics with social dynamics concerning compliance to a social norm prescribing...

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Governance of Diversity Between Social Dynamics and Conflicts in Multicultural Cities. A Selected Survey on Historical Bibliography

Sori, Ercole; Sansa, Renato - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper is an excursus on multiculturalism from a historical perspective. It ranges from the encounters of different cultures in ancient times, through the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation period up to the present times. It describes the peculiarity of the solutions...

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Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game

Noailly, Joëlle; Withagen, Cees A.; Bergh, Jeroen … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three types of agents: cooperators, defectors and enforcers. The role of enforcers is to punish defectors for overharvesting the resource. Agents are located around a circle and they only...

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The Evolution of Core Stability in Decentralized Matching Markets

Nax, Heinrich H.; Pradelski, Bary S. R.; Young, H. Peyton - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Decentralized matching markets on the internet allow large numbers of agents to interact anonymously at virtually no …

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Local and Global Interactions in an Evolutionary Resource Game

Noailly, Joëlle; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game are studied. This combines in a unique way local and global interactions. A fixed number of harvesters are located on a spatial grid. Harvesters choose among three strategies: defection, cooperation, and...

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A Search Model for Joint Implementation

Bella, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The aim of this paper is to present a search model in the field of environmental economics, where so-called clean and dirty producers enter the trading market, both looking for a partner with whom to exchange the goods they are endowed with. The model derived in this paper is rather simple....

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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study

Haeringer, Guillaume; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Klijn, Flip - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically...

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Feasibility Constraints and Protective Behavior in Efficient Kidney Exchange

Nicoló, Antonio; Álvarez, Carmelo Rodríguez - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We propose a model of Kidney-Exchange that incorporates the main European institutional features. We assume that patients do not consider all compatible kidneys homogeneous and patients are endowed with reservation values over the minimal quality of the kidney they may receive. Under feasibility...

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Social Games: Matching and the Play of Finitely Repeated Games

Jackson, Matthew O.; Watts, Alison - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

game. Conversely, the set of repeated matching (or social) equilibria also includes some plays that are not part of any … definitions, as well as the relationship to renegotiation-proof equilibrium. It is possible for repeated matching equilibria to be …

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Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets

Kushnir, Alexey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Some labor markets have recently developed formal signalling mechanisms, e.g. the signalling for interviews in the job … market for new Ph.D. economists. We evaluate the effect of such mechanisms on two-sided matching markets by considering a … signalling mechanism is harmful for this environment. Though signals transmit previously unavailable information, they also …

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