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unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
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hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …
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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …
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We consider the psychological and social foundations of human contributions and punishments in a voluntary contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate ‘dynamic economic linkages’ between the two stages of our ‘modified’ VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We...
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In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today’s internationally fragmented …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average …
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In this paper, we analyze several local referendums on land development and land-use regulation in the City of Erlangen (Germany) in the period between 2011 and 2018. To identify the positive influence of the travel distance on approval for the development of land, we employ a two-way...
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We propose a simple model of distribution of economic activity across cities of endogenous size and number determined by individual incentives in the tradition of threshold models of social interaction. The individuals populating our model are endowed with idiosyncratic entrepreneurial...
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