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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...

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Who, What, When, Why: Resource Economics Before the Fall

Wiener, Jonathan B. - 1998

microeconomic theory to these fundamental questions about resource management practises 'before the fall'. The essential argument is …

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Enclosure Within and Without the Commons

McCann, Anthony - 2004

address some of the ways in which my attempts to use resource management models of common property theory have left me unable … 'the commons' is taken to mean. A brief overview of a new theory of commodification is presented, and through this it will …

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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

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Why Fairness? Facial Expressions, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Emergence of Fairness in Simple Bargaining Games

Eckel, Catherine; Wilson, Rick K. - 1999

"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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Regional Integration through Agreements: Does Multiplexity in Urban Service Deliveries Matter?

Andrew, Simon A.; Kendra, James M. - 2009

"While most scholars in urban studies and public management tend to conceptualize networks as having interdependent properties---with multiple sets of organizations working together (directly or indirectly) on common problems---few explore the importance of multiplexity in these relations....

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Key Factors in the Future Development of the Construction Industry

Fox, Paul; Skitmore, Martin - 2002

This paper reports on a recent study aimed at identifying the key factors influencing the development of the construction industry. From a list of 62 variables identified in earlier studies, a questionnaire survey was conducted. This quantitative study elicited views from 76 respondents and...

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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning

Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009

As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...

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Essays in international finance and search theory.

Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992

This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...

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Elicitiing the beliefs of young drivers about driving risks: An analysis of two methodologies

Ferguson, Catherine; Cohen, Lynne; Pooley, Julie Ann; … - 2009

The Theory of Planned Behaviour proposes that intention is the closest predictor of behaviour, with attitude …

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