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The Flipside of Comparative Payment Schemes
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …
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Interacting Agents in Finance
Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper led to a chapter in: (S.N. Durlauf & L.E. Blume (Eds.))<I>The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics</I> 2nd ed. Vol.4, pp. 402-406. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.<P> Interacting agents in finance represent a behavioral, agent-based approach in which financial markets are...</p></i>
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Connectivity and Concentration in Airline Networks: A Complexity Analysis of Lufthansa's Network
Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter; Cento, Alessandro - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Information, communication and transport networks have always been in a state of flux, while they also influence each other. Extensive research efforts have been made to investigate the dynamics in the structure and use of networks, e.g., by means of network geometries, small-world effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256049
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Computation of the Nucleolus for a Class of Disjunctive Games with a Permission Structure
Brink, René van den; Katsev, Ilya; Laan, Gerard van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
situation in which a finite set of players can obtain certain payoffs by cooperation can be described by a cooperative game with … cooperation possibilities by assigning to every coalition the worth of its largest feasible subset. In this paper we provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256279
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A Bankruptcy Approach to the Core Cover
Estévez-Fernández, Arantza; Fiestras-Janeiro, María … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
stable allocations capturedby an associated bankruptcy game. Moreover, we analyze the combinatorial complexity ofthe core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256360
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An Algorithm for Computing the Nucleolus of Disjunctive Additive Games with An Acyclic Permission Structure
Brink, René van den; Katsev, Ilya; Laan, Gerard van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
A situation in which a finite set of players can obtain certain payoffs by cooperation can be described by a … limited cooperation possibilities by assigning to every coalition the worth of its largest feasible subset. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257037
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255768
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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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Networks and Collective Action
Flores, Ramon; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines; Molina, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Social Networks</I> (2012). Vol. 34(4), pages 161-179.<P> This paper proposes a new measure for a group's ability to lead society to adopt their standard of behavior, which in particular takes account of the time the group takes to convince the whole...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256738
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Imitation of Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Games with Some Local Interaction
Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
, the less likely cooperation will be. …
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