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Redistributional preferences and imposed institutions
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006
To what extent do imposed institutions shape preferences? We consider this issue by comparing the market-versus-state attitudes of respondents from a capitalist country, Finland, and an ex-communist group of Baltic countries, and by arguing that the period of communist rule can be viewed as an...
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International Environmental Agreements - The Impact of Heterogeneity among Countries on Stability
Diamantoudi, Effrosyni; Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sofokles; … - 2018
The present paper examines the stability of self-enforcing International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) among heterogeneous countries in a twostage emission game. In the first stage each country decides whether or not to join the agreement, while in the second stage the quantity of emissions is...
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International Environmental Agreements and Trading Blocks - Can Issue Linkage Enhance Cooperation?
Diamantoudi, Effrosyni; Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sofokles; … - 2018
in the number of countries affected by the externalities. …
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ACE model of endogenous interactions
Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2005
Various approaches used in Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) to model endogenously determined interactions between agents are discussed. This concerns models in which agents not only (learn how to) play some (market or other) game, but also (learn to) decide with whom to do that (or not).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284102
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Network formation and social coordination
Goyal, Sanjeev; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003
This paper develops a simple model to examine the interaction between partner choice and individual behavior in games of coordination. An important ingredient of our approach is the way we model partner choice: we suppose that a player can establish ties with other players by unilaterally...
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Bargaining, coalitions and externalities: A comment on Maskin
de Clippel, Geoffroy; Serrano, Roberto - 2008
function with nonpositive externalities whose unique solution is inefficient, as well as a four-player characteristic function … Maskin's insight that externalities may play a crucial role in generating inefficiency. Many existing solutions on how to … whom to bargain. We illustrate how this may trigger inefficiency, especially in the presence of externalities, even if …
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Volunteering and the State
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy: Sweden, 1810-2014
Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to smaller countries that were historically backward...
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of individuals, and their household members, which is representative for the population during the period 1960 to 1998. As future years become available, this information will be added...
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Earnings Inequality in Late Nineteenth Century America and Britain
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000
This paper studies the level and the causes of earnings inequality in late nineteenth century America and Britain using microdata from the United States Commissioner of Labor Survey in 1890 and 1891. We examine whether lessons from studies on changes in earnings inequality over time -- the...
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