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We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays arepeated public good game to astrangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations.Subjects in the partners conditioncontribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good...
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Most of the literature on the evolution of human pro-sociality looks at reasons why evolution made us not play the Nash equilibrium in prisoners' dilemmas or public goods games. We suggest that in order to understand human morality, and human prosocial behaviour, we should look at reasons why...
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In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies …
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decreases investment substantially. Theseresults are neither in line with expected utility theory norwith psychologically …This paper experimentally investigates investment behavior.We find that global risk – i.e. risk independent of an agent …’sinvestment decision (like political risk) – substantiallydecreases investment. Also effort to obtain the capital usedfor investment …
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