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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137115
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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions are significant for growth and, especially, foreign direct … investment (FDI), the latter in turn being important for the former. It is also found that the correlation between institutions … growth performance in transition countries than institutions per se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144418
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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security
Hoogeveen, Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with the continuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of labor for the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretation is advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144474
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Informal Sector in Developed and less Developed Countries: A Literature Survey
Gerxhani, Klarita - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144460
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Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia
Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144479
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136903
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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income
Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
two countries are not attributable to different tax attitudes or cultures, but to different tax institutions and the way …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137024
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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144408
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The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation; Reducing Implementations Costs through 'Matching Zones'
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Wolde, Sjoerd ten - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper discusses various ways to organise these consultations, so that a compromise agreement is reached on the solution of the (re)distribution problem. These institutionalised structures of consultation are referred to as 'matching zones' here. Practical experiences, mainly from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369368
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Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers
Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine "spillover" effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision...
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