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Sass, Markus; Weimann, Joachim - 2015

To examine the effect of group size on the stability of prosocial behavior we used standard one-shot public good experiments with two and four subjects, which were conducted repeatedly three times at intervals of one week. Partner and stranger treatments were employed to control for group...

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Intelligence, personality and gains from cooperation in repeated interactions

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - 2016

Intelligence and personality significantly affect social outcomes of individuals. We study how and why these traits affect the outcome of groups, looking specifically at how these characteristics operate in repeated interactions providing opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental...

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Non-common priors, incentives, and promotions : the role of learning

Fahn, Matthias; Klein, Nicolas Alexandre - 2023

We analyze a repeated principal-agent setting in which the principal cares about the agent's verifiable effort as well as an extra profit that can be generated only if the agent is talented. The agent is overconfident about his talent and updates beliefs using Bayes' rule. An exploitation...

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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of …

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Free neighborhood choice boosts socially optimal outcomes in stag-hunt coordination problem

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021

outcome will prevail. We performed an experiment with human subjects exploring how free neighborhood choice affects … coordination. In a ﬁxed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the inefficient outcome. In a …

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Combining Dutch presumptive capital income tax and US qualified intermediaries to set forth a new system of international savings taxation

Gérard, Marcel (contributor) - 2004

Beyond the traditional debates over information exchange vs flat taxation at source, legislative advances have produced interesting innovations and suggestions concerning how to tax international savings. We examine some of these advances, which we then use to set forth and investigate a...

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Partial tax coordination in a repeated game setting

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Okamura, Makoto; Yamaguchi, Chikara - 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 …, partial tax coordination is more likely to prevail if the preference for a local public good is stronger. The main driving …

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Formal contracts, relational contracts, and the threat-point effect

Itō, Hideshi; Morita, Hodaka - 2011

Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...

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Partial harmonization of corporate taxes in an asymmetric repeated game setting

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Okamura, Makoto; Yamaguchi, Chikara - 2010

coordination ; asymmetric countries ; repeated game ; tax competition …

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News sources and media bias

Pires, Armando José Garcia; Kind, Hans Jarle; … - 2012

In this paper we investigate the relationship between news sources and media firms. Although empirically important, this channel for supply-driven media bias has not previously been analyzed in economics literature. We model the relationship as an informal contract based on trust and punishment,...

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