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The Cost of Friendship
Gompers, Paul - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460518
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Supply and Demand for Discrimination : Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game
Heyes, Anthony - 2016
There is a large and diverse body of evidence that people condition their behavior on the characteristics of others. If type is visible then one agent seeing another with whom they are interacting, or observing some other close proxy for type, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456720
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How Do Strategic Complementarity and Substitutability Shape Equilibrium Dynamics?
Beaudry, Paul; Galizia, Dana S.; Portier, Franck - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Macroeconomic dynamics are shaped by how individual incentives to spend and accumulate interact with the decisions of others. The goal of this paper is to identify--within a simple large-game-theoretic structure--which types of agent interactions favor which types of dynamic equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635624
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2016
from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456363
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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 … cooperation within a group, we show theoretically that interactions of individuals from a punishment-based culture with those from … a culture of image scoring can lead to widespread inter-group tensions. Mutual cooperation is a more likely outcome if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388873
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Discrete choice with social interactions
Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000553770
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Discrete Choice with Social Interactions I : Theory
Brock, William A. - 1995
This paper provides an analysis of aggregate behavioral outcomes when individual utility exhibits social interaction effects. We study generalized logistic models of individual choice which incorporate terms reflecting the desire of individuals to conform to the behavior of others in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473579
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Social Capital as Good Culture
Guiso, Luigi - 2007
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464934
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How Much is Social Capital Worth?
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462628
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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463864