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The characteristics of endogenously determined sharing rules and the group-size paradox are studied in a model of group contest with the following features: (i) The prize has mixed private-public good characteristics. (ii) Groups can differ in marginal cost of effort and their membership size....
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Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
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This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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This article studies the effects of tax competition on the provision of public goods under business risk and partial …
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punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team … investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals. …
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We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …
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one-shot behavioural experiment in Papua New Guinea fit exactly this pattern. They thus indicate neither an evolutionary …
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The argument that policy risk, i.e., uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic … recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining … business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New Keynesian model featuring policy risk as well as uncertainty about …
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This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...
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