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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants

Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010

While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …

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Bridging the Great Divide in South Africa: Inequality and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

find that aggregate cooperation is higher in both the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) and punishment treatments for …

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Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies

Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than …

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Cost Benefit Rules when Nature Counts

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

This paper analyses normative implications of relaxing the conventional welfare economics assumptions anthropocentrism and welfarism, i.e. that only human well-being counts intrinsically, combined with various types of non-selfish individual preferences. Social decision rules are derived for the...

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Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns

Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona; … - 2011

Human capital and, therefore, education have an impact on the societys future welfare. In this paper we study the connection between the voters support to public education and the retirement concerns. We show that voters anticipate the positive effect of education on future pensions. The support...

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Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India

Ahmed, Ali M. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of...

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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution

Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as well as the importance … of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars

Valsecchi, Michele - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed public-private good. We analyze how the level of dissipation changes as the...

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Drug price differentials caused by de-listing and price cap policies

Arque, Joan Ramon Borrell - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2001

This paper analyses the behaviour of pharmaceutical companies that face the threat of having their drugs excluded from reimbursement and the markets characterised also by price caps. We conclude that price elasticity of demand and cost differentials cause the price discounts which drug firms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138817

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