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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051051
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Leading by example in intergroup competition: An experimental approach
Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We investigate leading by example in a public goods game in scenarios with and without intergroup competition. Leading by example is implemented via a sequential decision protocol. We examine both one-shot and repeated interaction and make use of the strategy method to characterize followers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391900
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Leading by Words in Privileged Groups
Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391904
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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one's own influ- ence on...
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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489509
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Trust, Confidence and Economic Growth An Evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis
Volland, Benjamin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey …; Beugelsdijk, de Groot, & van Schaik, 2004; Dearmon & Grier, 2009) in fact captures the well-functioning of institutions. Our … results reveal that the correlation between trust and economic growth is robust in terms of statistical significance and sign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690481
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Cheap Talk and Secret Intentions in a Public Goods Experiments
Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weiland, Torsten - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In a public goods experiment, subjects can vary over a period of stochastic length two contribution levels: one is publicly observable (their cheap talk stated intention), while the other is not seen by the others (their secret intention). When the period suddenly stops, participants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090483
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You Are Who Your Friends Are: An Experiment on Trust and Homophily in Friendship Networks
Winter, Fabian; Kataria, Mitesh - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the … derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702019
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Fighting Maritime Piracy: Three Lessons from Pompeius Magnus
Schubert, Christian; Lades, Leonhard K. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Piracy in international waters is on the rise again, in particular off the coast of Somalia. While the dynamic game between pirates, ship-owners, insurance firms and the military seems to have reached some kind of equilibrium, piracy risks generating significant negative externalities to third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546986
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Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries
Freytag, Andreas; Pehnelt, Gernot - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper we empirically discuss the question whether or not debt relief in the past fifteen years has been economically rational. Analysing the determinants of debt relief our results suggest that governance quality did not play a role in the decision of creditor countries to forgive debt...
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