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Testing a Coordination Process for Shared Goods: The Possibility of Successful Collective Action
Loehman, Edna T.; Rassenti, Stephen J. - 1997
"This paper reports the design and testing of a coordination process for finding a group agreement simultaneously about cost sharing and the nature of a shared good. The process was designed to search for a cost sharing equilibrium, a particular type of Pareto optimum. The cost share equilibrium...
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Under What Conditions are Decentralized Solutions to Collective Action Problems Likely?
Maier-Rigaud, Frank - 2000
"The paper outlines conditions under which decentralized approaches are likely to succeed in solving collective action problems. Criteria that render successful decentralized collective action more likely have mainly been developed in the Common Pool Resource (CPR) and International Relations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468423
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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002
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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It Works in Practice. Does It Work in Theory?
Moir, Robert - 1998
theory. Further research is necessary to understand how individuals operate in this environment." …
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The Missing Link: Collective-Choice Policymaking in Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Child Care Centers
Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999
to explain nonprofit production of certain types of goods. Hansmann (1980, 1986) developed Contract Failure Theory to …. Weisbrod (1977, 1988) developed the theory of Market/Government Failure to explain nonprofit production of collective goods … primary justification for the nonprofit institutional form. In Contract Failure Theory it signals quality to consumers because …
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Bootstrap Markov chain Monte Carlo and optimal solutions for the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected)
Kochanski, Greg P; Rosner, Burton S. - 2010
sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …
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Risk Preferences Beyond Expected Utility Theory: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
R?ger, Maximilian - 2011
preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …
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11.471 Targeting the Poor: Small Firms, Workers, and Local Economic Development, Fall 2004
Tendler, Judith - 2004
Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...
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Seasoning a Monopsonic Processor for Collective Action amongst Pepper Producers in Costa Rica
Saenz-Segura, Fernando J.F.; Schipper, Robert A.; … - 2006
The small-scale pepper producers in the El Roble settlement Costa Rica face a monopsonistic market. Only one processing firm is buying the fresh pepper bunches. The processor has all bargaining power to decide on the price paid to the farmers and the quality selection criteria. The rejection...
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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models
Parker, Frederick - 2011
generate dead weight loss whenmaximizing producer surpluses as expected under prevailing microeconomic theory. Theuse of …
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