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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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Essays on environmental and public economics
Williams, Roberton C. (contributor);  … - 2011
This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...
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Altruism and Egoism: Measurable by Utility Discount Rates?
Bayer, Stefan - 2000
intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die … Altruismus oder Egoismus verwenden läßt. Abschließend werden unsere Überlegungen auf den Klimaschutzfall angewendet …
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Trust and Reciprocity in the Market-Based Provision of Public Goods. Experimental Evidence and Applications to Conservation Tenders
Vogt, Nora - 2013
Vertragserfüllung in der kontrollierten Laborumgebung simuliert. In einem ersten Experiment kann auf Basis dieses Untersuchungsdesigns … Experiment verdeutlicht jedoch, wie wichtig vertrauensbasierte Vertragsbeziehungen insbesondere in Bereitstellungsumgebungen sind …
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432546
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Economic Behavior in the Face of Resource Variability and Uncertainty
McAllister, Ryan R. J.; Tisdell, John G.; Reeson, Andrew F. - 2011
drivers. In this paper we present the results of an economic experiment designed to explore how reciprocity interacts with … variability and uncertainty, trust and reciprocity took time to build. When variability and uncertainty were part of the … experiment trust was evident from the onset. Given resource variability and uncertainty are key drivers in semiarid systems, new …
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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology
Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995
these experiments exhibits a habit of reciprocity even in single-play games. Evolutionary psychologists hypothesize that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468384
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Data confidentiality and reputation schemes in distributed information systems
Fischmann, Matthias - 2008
trust. The first is known as the database service provider problem: A database owner wants a database service provider (DSP … node that enters a P2P application network for the first time needs to trust the claimed observations of other nodes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467070
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Reputation in Multi Agent Systems and the Incentives to Provide Feedback
Heitz, Miriam; K?nig, Stefan - 2009
instead of giving rise to defective behavior are necessary to make the system work: trust and reputation mechanisms.This paper … examines different incentive mechanisms helping these trust and reputation mechanisms in eliciting users to report own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485601