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Leader behavior and the natural resource curse

Caselli, Francesco (contributor); … - 2009

We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy's total value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rents will alter the incentives of a political leader....

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

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

We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...

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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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Public good overprovision by a manipulative provider

Celik, Gorkem; Shin, Dongsoo; Strausz, Roland - 2020

We study contracting between a public good provider and users with private valuations of the good. We show that, once the provider extracts the users' private information, she benefits from manipulating the collective information received from all users when communicating with them. We derive...

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Religious identity, public goods and centralization : evidence from Russian and Israeli Cities

Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Torgler, Benno - 2013

tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods - on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether … government positively. Moreover, we explore whether adherence to collectivist norms of economic and political organization leads … to a positive evaluation of central government. Surveys were conducted in Russia and Israel as these countries provide a …

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