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The European Union (EU) has moved towards bicameralism, making the codecision procedure its most important mechanism for decision making. To gauge if European Parliament (EP) and Council of Ministers (CM) are equally powerful codecision makers , understanding of the final stage of the procedure...
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. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in … that ultimate theories of kin selection, reciprocal altruism, costly signaling and indirect reciprocity do not provide …
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-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …
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generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy …
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We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent's rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit the...
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
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pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …
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This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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and output gap shocks, however, still makes fiscal cooperation unattractive. We extend the existing New …-Keynesian literature on policy coordination by considering not only cases of non-coordination, fiscal cooperation and the grand coalition …, but also the partial cooperation arrangements between fiscal players. We show that, in many cases, partial fiscal …
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