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Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game
Noailly, Joëlle; Withagen, Cees A.; van den Bergh, … - 2005
We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three types of agents: cooperators, defectors and enforcers. The role of enforcers is to punish defectors for overharvesting the resource. Agents are located around a circle and they only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312507
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Network Formation with Endogenous Decay
Feri, Francesco - 2005
This paper considers a communication network characterized by an endogenous architecture and an imperfect transmission … of information as in Bala and Goyal (2000). We propose a similar network's model with the difference that it is … dominant. Differently from other models, where the network represents only a channel to obtain information or to play a game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312452
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Network formation with endogenous decay
Feri, Francesco - 2007
This paper considers a model of economic network characterized by an endogenous architecture and frictions in the … relations among agents as described in Bala and Goyal (2000). We propose a similar network model with the difference that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293402
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Technological progress under learning by imitation
Kelly, Morgan - 2005
innovators in the same knowledge network. Assuming the diffusion of knowledge to mirror the geographical pattern of trade - the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293845
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Prozessbegleitende Lernberatung: Konzeption und Konzepte
Aulerich, Gudrun; Behlke, Karin; Grube, Bernd; Arndt, Karin - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443286
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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital
Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262488
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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey
Conte, Andrea - 2006
the development of a more general theory of the determinants and the effects of TC. In turn, such theory has to deal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263572
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265548
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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273105
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Economic reform, informal-formal sector linkages and intervention in the informal sector in developing countries: A paradox
Arvin-Rad, Hassan; Basu, Arnab K.; Willumsen, Maria - 2010
Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is procyclical/ complementary - expansion or contraction in one necessarily implies an expansion or contraction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274701