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Starting Small : Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation
Andreoni, James - 2016
types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to “start small,” so that …
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Overcoming the Common Pool Problem Through Voluntary Cooperation : The Rise and Fall of a Fishery Cooperative
Deacon, Robert - 2010
We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138469
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The Cost of Friendship
Gompers, Paul A. - 2014
This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from...
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Kinship, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Moral Systems
Enke, Benjamin - 2017
, cooperation appears to be enforced through universal moral values; internalized guilt; altruistic punishment; and an apparent rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954472
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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992149
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Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange
Ashlagi, Itai - 2011
As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130977
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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Abowd, John M. - 2012
We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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The Exact Law of Large Numbers for Independent Random Matching
Duffie, Darrell - 2011
This paper provides a mathematical foundation for independent random matching of a large population, as widely used in … the economics literature. We consider both static and dynamic systems with random mutation, partial matching arising from … search, and type changes induced by matching. Under independence assumptions at each randomization step, we show that there …
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101278
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Taxation and Redistribution of Residual Income Inequality
Golosov, Mikhail - 2012
This paper studies the optimal redistribution of income inequality in a model with search and matching frictions in the …
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