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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899359
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Information Technology Conceptualization: Respective Contributions of Sociology and Information Systems
Vaujany, François-Xavier De - HAL - 2005
This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369208
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Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.
JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898829
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Edgeworth and Lindahl-Foley equilibria of a general equilibrium model with private provision of pure public goods
Florenzano, Monique; Mercato, Elena L. Del - HAL - 2006
In this paper, we propose a definition of Edgeworth equilibrium for a private ownership production economy with (possibly infinitely) many private goods and a finite number of pure public goods. We show that Edgeworth equilibria exist whatever be the dimension of the private goods space, and can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750403
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Bargaining over public goods
Davila, Julio; Eeckhout, Jan; Martinelli, César - HAL - 2008
In a simple public good economy, we propose a natural bargaining procedure whose equilibria converge to Lindahl allocations as the cost of bargaining vanishes. The procedure splits the decision over the allocation in a decision about personalized prices and a decision about output levels for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750409
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General equilibrium
Florenzano, Monique - HAL - 2007
equilibrium are sketched ; they are the condition for a predictive power of the theory and its ability to allow for statics … many commodities and to a continuum of agents, some examples show how economic theory can accommodate the main ideas in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750449
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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy. The case of Ghana, 1996 - 2004
Andre, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - HAL - 2010
The body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers find that public funds target ruling party supporters and swing districts. Our results,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753932
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Social Fragmentation and Public Goods Revisiting the Olson's Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2009
A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. This is a key issue, given that public goods availability has been reckoned as crucial to economic development, while developing countries' societies often exhibit high degrees of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738478
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Social fragmentation and public goods : polarization, inequality and patronage in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2010
A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. It has been established theoretically that social fragmentation engenders discord and thereby undermines public goods provision. Empirical research has produced mixed results about this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603677
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Monetary and Non-Monetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism
Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Tucker, Steven; … - HAL - 2001
In this paper we replicate and extend the experiment of Fehr and Gaechter (2000) that analyzes the effect of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791705