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Falk, Armin - 2017

reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …

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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict

Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one … information. Punishment-based reputation (a "culture of honor") represents past sanctioning behavior of individuals, while a … cooperation within a group, we show theoretically that interactions of individuals from a punishment-based culture with those from …

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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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Information Aggregation and Transmission in Strategic Networks

Kung, Fan-chin; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Observing the increasingly important roles played by the creation and transmission of information and tacit knowledge, we construct an information-network model incorporating both information transmitters and information aggregators. Given information-processing roles in aggregation or...

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Bargaining in the Shadow of Uncertainty

Agranov, Marina; Eraslan, Hülya; Tergiman, Chloe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We experimentally study unanimity and majority voting rules in multilateral bargaining environments with stochastic future surplus. In these settings, reaching agreement when expected future surplus is sufficiently higher than the current surplus is inefficient. Theoretically, such...

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Bargaining with Altruism

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative...

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Scenario Sampling for Large Supermodular Games

Graham, Bryan S.; Pelican, Andrin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper introduces a simulation algorithm for evaluating the log-likelihood function of a large supermodular binary-action game. Covered examples include (certain types of) peer effect, technology adoption, strategic network formation, and multi-market entry games. More generally, the...

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Limits to Competition : Strategies for Promoting Jurisdictional Cooperation

Agrawal, David R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, harmonization, minimum tax rates, or interjurisdictional cooperation. I propose a general model applicable to studying many types of … taxing instruments, which allows for the comparison of various policy responses to promote jurisdictional cooperation …

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Dynamic Price Competition with Capacity Constraints

Betancourt, Jose M.; Hortaçsu, Ali; Öry, Aniko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study dynamic price competition between sellers offering differentiated products with limited capacity and a common sales deadline. In every period, firms simultaneously set prices, and a randomly arriving buyer decides whether to purchase a product or leave the market. Given remaining...

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Demographic Diversity and Economic Research : Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM)...

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