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take risks to initiate coordination." …
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of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
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"One of the successes in contemporary social science is the development and proliferation of game theory. For a wide … range of phenomena, game theory produces enormous insight into the strategic interaction of individuals. Its greatest power …, information aggregation or when confronting large-scale social dilemmas. However, as Ostrom (1998) reminds us, game theory also …
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Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...
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"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
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growth in the region, qualitative knowledge about diffusion of employment practices in this region, and about coordination of … coordination between MNCs, local actors, and international actors in shaping employment practices, their diffusion from … be achieved. To explain this, we apply several coordination games between management and trade unions in the empirical …
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We examine a problem with n players each facing the same binary choice. One choice is superior to the other. The simple assumption of competition - that an individual's payoff falls with a rise in the number of players making the same choice, guarantees the existence of a unique symmetric...
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Although previous work in nonlinear dynamics on neurobiological coordination and control has provided valuable insights … from studies of single joint movements in humans, researchers have shown increasing interest in coordination of multi … practice. We conclude by showing how empirical analyses of neurobiological coordination and control have been used to establish …
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