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Atran, Scott; Axelrod, Robert - HAL - 2008

Sacred values differ from material or instrumental values in that they incorporate moral beliefs that drive action in ways dissociated from prospects for success. Across the world, people believe that devotion to essential or core values – such as the welfare of their family and country, or...

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Endogenous Timing in General Rent‐Seeking and Conflict Models

Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire; Hoffmann, Magnus - HAL - 2011

This paper examines simultaneous versus sequential choice of effort in a twoplayer contest with a general contest success function. The timing of moves, determined in a pre‐play stage prior to the contest‐subgame, as well as the value of the prize is allowed to be endogenous. Contrary to...

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Coopetition in a Mixed Oligopoly Market

Ngo, Duc-De; Okura, Mahito - HAL - 2007

In this study, we aim to investigate the impact of privatization on the degree of cooperation and competition in a mixed oligopoly market. We consider a duopoly market that comprises one semipublic firm and one private firm. Each firm is assumed to determine the level of two types of effort: the...

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Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009

older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the …

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2007

behavior of juniors (under 30) and seniors (over 50) in both experiments conducted onsite with the employees of two large firms … external validity of conventional laboratory experiments. In general we do not find strong differences in behavior between … workers and non-workers, indicating that laboratory experiments may not be such a bad approximation for the field environment. …

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Individual and couple decision behavior under risk: Evidence on the dynamics of power balance

Palma, André De; Picard, Nathalie; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - HAL - 2009

This paper reports results of an experiment designed to analyze the link between risky decisions made by couples and risky decisions made separately by each spouse. We estimate both the spouses and the couples' degrees of risk aversion, we assess how the risk preferences of the two spouses...

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Protecting Minorities in Large Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - HAL - 2008

were asked to rank the importance of the different contests and to choose where to cast a single extra "bonus vote," had … vote performs well: when minority preferences are particularly intense, the minority wins at least one of the contests with …

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Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

Casella, Alessandra - HAL - 2008

parameterizations studied. The theoretical conclusions are tested through laboratory experiments. Subjects have difficulty identifying …

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Cooperation in a Game of Chicken with Heterogeneous Agents: An Experimental Study

Cabon-Dhersin, Marie-Laure; Etchart-Vincent, Nathalie - HAL - 2008

Using a two-stage Game of Chicken, Cabon-Dhersin and Ramani (2007) examine the impact of population heterogeneity on cooperative behaviour. For that purpose, they introduce two different types of agents, namely those who always cooperate and those who strategically cooperate. The aim of the...

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Experimental comparison of compulsory and non compulsory arbitration mechanisms

Guerci, Eric; Thoron, Sylvie - HAL - 2011

We run a series of experiments to compare the well known arbitration scheme FOA (Final Offer Arbitration) with a new …

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