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How universal is behavior? : A four country comparison of spite, cooperation and errors in voluntary contribution mechanisms

Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002

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Heterogeneous agent models in economics and finance

Hommes, Cars H. - 2005

This paper surveys work on dynamic heterogeneous agent models (HAMs) in economics and finance. Emphasis is given to simple models that, at least to some extent, are tractable by analytic methods in combination with computational tools. Most of these models are behavioral models with boundedly...

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Group formation in a public good experiment : on the dynamics of social ties structures

Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999

agency theory. …

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Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

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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Control without deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000

Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable,but is eschewed by experimental economists because it may pollute thepool of subjects. This paper proposes andimplements a new experimental design, the Conditional...

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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When the quality of a nation triggers emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2006

Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...

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Models of individual behavior and implications for environmental policy

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; … - 1998

, formulated in terms of maximization of utility ingeneral, or profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy … behavioural assumptions have been most significant for the development ofeconomic valuation theory and environmental policy theory …. The focus here will be onenvironmental policy theory. …

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Second-best congestion pricing in general static transportation networks with elastic demands

Verhoef, Erik T. - 2000

This paper studies the second-best problem where not all links of a congestedtransportation network can be tolled. The second-best tax rule for thisproblem is derived for general static networks, so that the solution presentedis valid for any graph of the network and any set of tolling points...

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Choice behaviour and verbal behaviour : a critical assessment of their relevance for practical policy

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul - 1997

have been, used to find implicit prices, but they also have a much wider use. In theory and in practice, they can be used …

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