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Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...
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monopsony power. Distance and worse municipal characteristics strongly decrease acceptance rates but higher wages help bridge …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support …
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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations … principles to actions is mainly the fact of individuals who behave more selfishly and who have a stronger bargaining power. The …
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How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
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describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …
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paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own …
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five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …
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