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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019

cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the …

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Is altruism bad for cooperation?

Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008

embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …

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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research

Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...

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Who should own the past?

Halonen-Aktawijuka, Maija; Parfilis, Evanjelos - 2022

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Impact of mining boom on the quality of public goods in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertinelli, Luisito; Bourgain, Arnaud - 2021

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Climate finance and emission reductions : what do the last twenty years tell us?

Gavard, Claire; Schoch, Niklas - 2021 - This version: 29 January 2021

In the framework of the Paris Agreement implementation, financial transfers remain a major point of negotiation for addressing equity concerns raised by the ambitious climate objectives. In complement to the theoretical, experimental and numerical studies that have examined the role of transfers...

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A core-equilibrium convergence in an economy with public goods

Allouch, Nizar - 2009

This paper deals with a core-equilibrium equivalence in an economy with public goods where preferences of consumers display warm glow effects. We demonstrate that provided that each consumer becomes satiated to other consumers provision, it holds that, for a sufficiently large economy, the set...

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Mandatory versus discretionary spending: The status quo effect

Bowen, T. Renee; Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2012

Do mandatory spending programs such as Medicare improve efficiency? We analyze a model with two parties allocating a fixed budget to a public good and private transfers each period over an infinite horizon. We compare two institutions that differ in whether public good spending is discretionary...

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Mandatory Versus Discretionary Spending: The Status Quo Effect

Bowen, T. Renee; Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2012

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When are preferences consistent? The effects of task familiarity and contextual cues on revealed and stated preferences

Schläpfer, Felix; Fischhoff, Baruch - 2010

Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...

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