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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104948
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009577666
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621946
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Competition, cooperation and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 574, pp. 163-195
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383388
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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394004
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Separation of Powers, Political Competition and Efficient Provision of Public Goods
Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2010
decisions about the level of the public good. We derive a number of interesting results: i) Political competition is a necessary … competition, these institutions implement the Lindahl allocation in the economy as a sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208460
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Cost sharing in collective contests
Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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Prize Sharing Rules in Collective Contests : When Does Group Size Matter?
Gupta, Dhritiman - 2020
In this paper we deal with situations of collective contests between two groups over a private prize. A well known way to divide the prize within the winning group is the prize sharing rule introduced by Nitzan, 1991. Since its introduction it has become a standard in the collective contests...
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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014
We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our …
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