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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
presence of public goods. This article aims at showing that such a positive relationship does exist, at least in parts of India …, as a consequence of caste patronage. It also shown that polarization is irrelevant as social antagonisms do not seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603677
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Power distribution and endogenous segregation
Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2008
The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of the process of segregation formation. The claim is that segregation does not originate from prejudice or exogenous psychological factors. Rather it is the product of strategic interactions among social groups in a setting where one group...
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Economic Comparison and Group Identity: Lessons from India
Fontaine, Xavier; Yamada, Katsunori - HAL - 2012
The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes one's identity. Furthermore … society. We focus on both within and between-castes comparisons. Within-caste comparisons appear to reduce well … economic comparison triggers the actual caste-based behaviours (castes' political demands, discrimination). …
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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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On the Feasibility of Power and Status Ranking in Traditional Setups
Sekeris, Petros; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - HAL - 2010
This paper aims at a better understanding of the conditions under which unequal rank or power positions may get permanently established through asymmetric gift exchange when a gift brings pride to the donor and shame to the recipient. Such a framework matches numerous observations reported in...
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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...
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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...
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General equilibrium
Florenzano, Monique - HAL - 2007
Unlike partial equilibrium analysis which study the equilibrium of a particular market under the clause "ceteris paribus" that revenues and prices on the other markets stay approximately unaffected, the ambition of a general equilibrium model is to analyze the simultaneous equilibrium in all...
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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,...
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