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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...

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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

Dynamic voluntary contributions to a discrete public good:Experimental evidence

Diev, Pavel; Hichri, Walid - HAL - 2008

We experiment a mechanism for the provision of a discrete public good where individuals are allowed to update upwards …

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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 … opportunity to punish others on the level contributions in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. The punishment is costly for … both the players distributing and those receiving the punishment. Like Fehr and Gaechter, we find that agents often engage …

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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...

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Dumbing down rational players : learning and teaching in an experimental game

Terracol, Antoine; Vaksmann, Jonathan - HAL - 2007

This paper uses experimental data to examine the existence of a teaching strategy among bounded rational players. If players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this specific end ; and forego immediate payoffs if the...

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Managing grasslands biodiversity at a landscape level to foster ecosystem services in intensive cereal systems: from ecological knowledge to collective action

Bretagnolle, Vincent; Berthet, Elsa - HAL - 2012

Effective solutions for integrating agricultural development and conservation of biodiversity at the landscape scale remain to be identified. We present a case study in an intensively farmed French cereal plain, where the reintroduction of grasslands has been proposed first for conservation...

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StakeS-holder Management and Crisis Resilience A case study in a public transportation company

Acquier, Aurélien; Gand, Sébastien; Szpirglas, Mathias - HAL - 2006

Stakeholder perspectives on crisis management provide a useful descriptive framework for analyzing crises and making crisis narratives. However, their "actionability" for crisis management, i.e. possibility to use stakeholder management models into operational crisis management processes,...

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Trust as a Proxy for the Ability to Produce Local Public Goods: Testing Different Measures

Sene, Omar - HAL - 2012

The ability to produce local public goods and services such as sharing savings, risk, insurance, sanitation and educational services, is a key fator for development. This ability, however, varies greatly across communities (Ostrom 1990 ; Khwaja 2009). Considering that this ability depends...

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Toward a reflexive framework to compare collective design methods for farming system innovation

Berthet, Elsa; Barnaud, Cécile; Girard, Nathalie; … - HAL - 2012

Faced with strong environmental issues, the agricultural sector has to revise deeply its aims and performance criteria. Numerous methods have been proposed to involve heterogeneous stakeholders in farming system design, and several authors highlight the importance of reflexivity in such...

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