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reciprocity, which underpin cooperation and collective action for mutual benefits, and creates the base for economic prosperity …
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While folk theorems for dynamic renewable common pool resource games sustain cooperation as an equilibrium, the …
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This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third … implicated parties are allowed to punish each other, both the cooperation rate and the earnings are lower when the enforcement of …
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’s decisions open to others may enhance cooperation in these situations. But it is still unknown whether people can successfully …. We deal with this question using an experimental laboratory. Our experiment shows that a non-negligible fraction of … all show their identities and successfully achieve cooperation with their partners if a small explicit cost is charged for …
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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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reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in … suggest that the enhanced cooperation behavior of pairs may be driven by (a) the mere fact that they have partners when they … partners in their pairs, and (c) stronger conditional cooperation behavior of pairs to their matched pairs. …
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regard to resolution of water disputes, followed by a brief discussion of how identity can hinder cooperation or the …
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Institutional changes in the economy have been the research subject of many economists, the majority of studies are carried out within neoinstitutionalism. In this paper the author attempts to analyze current institutional changes in terms of the old or traditional institutionalism. The author...
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This paper is a draft chapter for an edited collection on Law and Public Choice being published by Edward Elgar and edited by Dan Farber and Anne Joseph O’Connell. The chapter provides an overview of public choice literature regarding three aspects of federalism - exit-based normative...
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Comments on: Barry Eichengreen, Kenneth Kletzer, and Ashoka Mody who describe the debate over collective action clauses, which have been considered by the G-7,G-10, G-20, G-22, G-30, Institute of International Finance (IIF),International Monetary Fund, International Monetary and Financial...
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