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The effects of punishment in dynamic public-good games
Guererk, Oezguer; Rockenbach, Bettina; Wolff, Irenaeus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In an environment where past payoffs determine...
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Institution design in social dilemmas: How to design if you must?
Rockenbach, Bettina; Wolff, Irenaeus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Considerable experimental evidence has been collected on how to solve the public-good dilemma. In a 'first generation' of experiments, this was done by presenting subjects with a pre-specified game out of a huge variety of rules. A 'second generation' of experiments introduced subjects to two...
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Does Public Good Provision Determine Incumbent’s Fate? Evidence from India
Paul, Saumik; Denzau, Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
in rural India from 1971 to 1991. This study is based on a simple voter model where the voter looks at the supply of …
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Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, and Minimax Play
Shachat, Jason; Geng, Sen; Peng, Yujia; Zhong, Huizhen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We conduct experiments with adolescent participants on repeated fixed play in three different zero-sum games which have mixed strategy minimax solutions. Further, we collect subject information on cognitive abilities and participation rates in competitive activities. We find the adolescents'...
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Power of Joint Decision-Making in a Finitely-Repeated Dilemma
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
A rich body of literature has proposed that pairs behave significantly differently from individuals due to a number of reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in a finitely-repeated two-player public goods game...
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Obedience to Rules with Mild Sanctions: The Roles of Peer Punishment and Voting
Chen, Josie I - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
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Basic education as a human right redux
Willmore, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
limiting school choice and finds each of them to be unconvincing. It then describes three school systems: India, with free …
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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