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Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry
Ranehill, Eva - 2014
We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …
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The Clan and the Corporation : Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe
Greif, Avner - 2015
Over the last millennium, the clan and the corporation have been the loci of cooperation in China and Europe … bifurcation. We highlight that groups with which individuals identify are basic units of cooperation. Such loyalty groups …, and the implied pattern of cooperation …
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The Logic of Collective Action Revisited
Weimann, Joachim - 2018
assumption that the salience of the advantages of mutual cooperation plays a decisive role. This hypothesis is successfully …
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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2007
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....
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Liberation Technology : Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988970
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The Influence of Special Interests and Party Activists on Electoral Competition
Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....
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On the Sensitivity of Collective Action to Uncertainty about Climate Tipping Points
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2014
Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate “tipping point,” is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests...
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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - CESifo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and...
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Partial Harmonization of Corporate Taxes in an Asymmetric Repeated Game Setting
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2010
This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three heterogenous countries with respect to their capital endowments. We show that regardless of the structure of the...
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Partial Tax Coordination in a Repeated Game Setting
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2010
This paper addresses the problem of partial tax coordination among regional or national sovereign governments in a repeated game setting. We show that partial tax coordination is more likely to prevail if the number of regions in a coalition subgroup is smaller and the number of existing regions...
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