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Punish in Public
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006
environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for …Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its …
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Discussion of ”Bonus and Malus in Principal Agent Relations with Fixed Pay and Real Effort”
Stefani, Ulrike - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471856
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ANIMAL HEALTH AND THE ROLE OF COMMUNITIES: AN EXAMPLE OF TRYPANASOMOSIS CONTROL OPTIONS IN UGANDA
McCarthy, Nancy; McDermott, John; Coleman, Paul - 2003
In many African countries, governments are re-thinking the role of the state in centrally providing certain goods and services. The rights and responsibilities for providing various public goods are being decentralized to lower levels of government administration, and/or being devolved directly...
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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models
Parker, Frederick - 2011
Cooperative business firms are prevalent in agribusiness, yet no concise generalizedmodel exists to demonstrate how and why cooperative firms differ from, and may beselected over, the more common investor owned business firm. It is shown within ageneric transaction game that cooperatives fill...
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Testing a Coordination Process for Shared Goods: The Possibility of Successful Collective Action
Loehman, Edna T.; Rassenti, Stephen J. - 1997
personalized prices to determine cost shares. The experiment tested a two-stage game: a proposal phase based on a coordination …
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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002
the contest of two-person social dilemma games. In addition, we examine data from experiments and survey instruments that …
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It Works in Practice. Does It Work in Theory?
Moir, Robert - 1998
mechanism effective in curtailing excessive harvesting from the commons? The results of this economic experiment suggest that …
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Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space
Wardell, Clarence L. - 2009
At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of...
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