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War signals: A theory of trade, trust and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …

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Cooperation in a risky environment: Decisions from experience in a stochastic social dilemma

Artinger, Florian; Fleischhut, Nadine; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2012

Often in cooperative situations, many aspects of the decision-making environment are uncertain. We investigate how cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in risky environments. Drawing on research from risky...

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Dynamical modeling of the demographic Prisoner's Dilemma

Dorofeenko, Viktor; Shorish, Jamsheed - 2002

Epstein (1998) demonstrates that in the demographic Prisoner's Dilemma game it is possible to sustain cooperation in a repeated game played on a finite grid, where agents are spatially distributed and of fixed strategy type ('cooperate' or 'defect'). We introduce a methodology to formalize the...

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Global Climate Policy and Corresponding Activities on a City-Level

Sippel, Maike - 2004

Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...

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Warum Klimakonferenzen scheitern, aber dennoch zum Wohl des Weltklimas kooperiert wird

Itzenplitz, Anja; Seifferth-Schmidt, Nicole - 2010

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Gefährliche Liebschaften? Kommentierte Bibliografie zu Kooperationen von Umweltverbänden und Unternehmen

Jacob, Klaus; Jörgens, Helge - 2001

Die kommentierte Bibliographie gibt einen umfassenden Überblick zu verschiedenen Formen von Umweltkooperation zwischen Umweltverbänden und Unternehmen aller Art. Die Erhebung konzentriert sich auf Deutschland und weitere europäische Länder, erfaßt aber auch relevante Literatur aus England...

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On the Size and Structure of Group Cooperation

Haag, Matthew; Lagunoff, Roger - 2003

This paper examines characteristics of cooperative behavior in a repeated, n-person, continuous action generalization of a Prisoner's Dilemma game. When time preferences are heterogeneous and bounded away from one, how "much" cooperation can be achieved by an ongoing group? How does group...

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Evoluční dynamika vězňova dilematu: Vliv topologie interakcí a imitace na vývoj kooperativního chování

Hausenblas, Václav; Švarc, Petr - 2008

Kooperativní chování je nezbytnou podmínkou pro existenci moderních komplexních společenství a ekonomik, jak je známe dnes. Z pohledu společenských věd je proto zajímavé porozumnět, jak takové chování může převažovat i v situacích, kdy jednoduchá úvaha vede k opačnému...

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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this …

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When is the risk of cooperation worth taking? The prisoner's dilemma as a game of multiple motives

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

Both in the field and in the lab, participants frequently cooperate, despite the fact that the situation can be modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner's dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect, and explains the degree of cooperation by a combination of...

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