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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

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Sustainable Agreements on Stochastic River Flow

Houba, Harold; Ansink, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

, sustainable agreements allow downstream agents to reap the larger share of the benefits of cooperation. …

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The Economics of Transboundary River Management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

allows us to show how conflict and cooperation over transboundary water resources may occur. It also allows us to pay …

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Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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In and Out of Equilibrium: Evolution of Strategies in Repeated Games with Discounting

Veelen, Matthijs van; Garcia, Julian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

in the direction of more and in the direction of less cooperation. While the central theorems show that such paths out of …

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The Role and Evolution of Central Authorities

Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re … mutually connected individuals with sufficient combined punishment potential have signalled their willingness to form such an …

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The Design of (De)centralized Punishment Institutions for Sustaining Co-operation

Kosfeld, Michael; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, <I>KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft</I>, 90, 1 … difference between them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group … members themselves individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that …

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Do Polls create Momentum in Political Competition?

Denter, Philipp; Sisak, Dana - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby...

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What drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...

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Who carries the Burden of Reproductive Health and AIDS Programs? - Evidence from OECD Donor Countries

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo established goals for the expansion of assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This...

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