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State or Nature? Formal vs. Informal Sanctioning in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2011
The sanctioning of norm-violating behavior by an effective formal authority is an efficient solution for social dilemmas. It is in the self-interest of voters and is often favorably contrasted with letting citizens take punishment into their own hands. Allowing informal sanctions, by contrast,...
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Pure Redistribution and the Provision of Public Goods
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2006
We study pure redistribution as a device to increase cooperation and efficiency in the provision of public goods. Experimental subjects play a two-stage game. The first stage is the standard linear public goods game. In the second stage, subjects can redistribute payoffs among other subjects in...
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Everyone Is A Winner: Promoting Cooperation Through Non-Rival Intergroup Competition
Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2008
In this paper, we study the effectiveness of intergroup competition in promoting cooperative behavior. We focus on intergroup competition that is non-rival in the sense that everyone can be a winner. This type of competition does not give groups an incentive to outcompete others. However, in...
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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies
Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP...
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Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China
Yao, Yang; Qia, Nancy; Bravo, Monica Martinez; Miquel, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, taking into account that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002244
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Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods
Birdsall, Nancy; Leo, Benjamin - eSocialSciences - 2011
In this paper, four categories of existing resource-mobilization options are examined, including (1) transportation levies; (2) currency and financial transaction taxes; (3) capitalization of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); and (4) the sale, mobilization, or capitalization of IMF gold....
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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?
Karlan, Dean; List, John A - eSocialSciences - 2012
field experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from …. In the second field experiment, the same charity sent direct mail solicitations to individuals who had not previously … effective than not identifying the name of the matching donor. The first experiment demonstrates that the matching grant …
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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure of the network. The observed patterns are consistent...
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
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Survey Of State-Society Relations Social Indicators Research Project Executive Summary Report
Ling, Ooi Giok; Ser, Tan Ern; Koh, Gillian - eSocialSciences - 2010
The executive summary reports on major findings from a survey conducted among a random sample of 1,054 Singaporeans and Permanent Residents aged 18 to 65. Focus is on views of public policies in three areas, namely, political participation, social capital and trust and provision of public goods...
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