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Networks and markets : the dynamic impacts of information, matching and transaction costs on global trade

Kumagai, Yuki - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to explore strategic incentives to use trade networks rather than markets and to shed … of networks. We investigate the issues by mainly focusing on the role of matching in a trade network. The existing … conditions under which agents prefer to trade on networks rather than in markets. -- Trade networks ; Repeated games ; Matching …

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Networks and markets : the dynamic impacts of information, matching and transaction costs on trade

Kumagai, Yuki - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to explore strategic incentives to use trade networks rather than markets and shed light … trading system. The study states conditions under which agents prefer to trade on networks rather than in markets. -- Repeated … trade ; Moral hazard ; Matching ; Transaction costs ; Networks ; Institutions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990204

Conditional cooperation : behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications

Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006

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Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation : previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment

Gächter, Simon (contributor); … - 2008

Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental issue in all behavioural sciences. In this article we review the experimental evidence on how people solve cooperation problems. Existing studies show without doubt that direct and indirect reciprocity are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790691

The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2010

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we onducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990183

Cooperation and punishment under uncertain enforcement

Sousa, Sergio - 2010

This paper investigates the efficacy of a punishment mechanism in promoting cooperative behaviour in a public goods game when enforcement of punishment is uncertain. Experimental studies have found that a sanctioning system can induce individuals to adopt behaviour deemed as socially acceptable....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990188

Culture and cooperation

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010

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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon (contributor); … - 2007

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579958

Measuring conditional cooperation : a replication study in Russia

Herrmann, Benedikt (contributor); … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003563632

Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140