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"What makes social-ecological systems robust? In this paper we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that helps to identify potential...
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Published as:"The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems," Rationality and Society 2(3), July 1990, 335-358."A large, multidisciplinary literature focuses on the problems occurring when multiple individuals concurrently use common-pool resources such as fisheries, grazing areas, airsheds, oil...
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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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genetic algorithms, condercet jury theory, and regulatory regimes. Both empirical data and models suggest that a simple …
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"Social-ecological systems are complex adaptive systems where social and biophysical agents are interacting at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The main challenge for the study of governance of social-ecological systems is improving our understanding of the conditions under which...
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of the social conflict theory of inflation and creates cyclical indices of fiscal stance for developing countries …In the second essay a game-theoretic model is presented which formalizes the role of deficits in the conflict theory of … theory of inflation. Estimates are made for a hybrid of the cyclically neutral budget which reflects a macroeconomic target …
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That a firm's initial equityholders often emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings with more value than the absolute priority rule (APR) would suggest is now a generally accepted fact. The form in which this value is distributed, however, is less well understood. In particular, why do the...
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In this thesis, I have examined the models of dynamic competitive behavior on trading information. This information can be seen as a cost reducing manufacturing technique of output. Assume that the value of information is nonincreasing in the number of information holders. For the analysis, two...
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In Chapter 1, we present a model describing the control of a single public enterprise in a less developed country environment, through the imposition of an allocation scheme--consisting of an output target at a particular unit cost--by a central planner. We assume information asymmetry with a...
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