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International repercussions of direct taxes

Eggert, Wolfgang - 1999

This paper analyzes the impact of tax competition between two countries of unequal per-capita capital endownments on tax rates and efficiency when distorting wage, residence-based and source-based capital taxes (or any combination of two instruments) are available for governments. The national...

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The emergence of weak, despotic, and inclusive states

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2017

Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very different types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little capacity and ability to regulate economic or social relations. At the other are despotic states...

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Welfare Effects of Road Pricing and Traffic Information Under Alternative Ownership Regimes

Gubins, Sergejs - 2010

, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies …, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic information under various road markets with different ownership regimes … exactly the same, as traffic information is not strictly complementary to road use …

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The behavioural mechanisms of voluntary cooperation in WEIRD and non-WEIRD societies

Weber, Till O.; Beranek, Benjamin; Gächter, Simon; … - 2021

We provide a framework to uncover behavioural mechanisms driving potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. We deploy our framework in one-shot public goods experiments in the US and the UK, and in Morocco and Turkey. We find that cooperation is higher in the US and UK than...

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The role of rivalry : public goods versus common-pool resources

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P.; Apesteguia, Jose - 2004

Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is considerable confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated...

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The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies : evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023

We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the UK (two similar Western societies) and Morocco and...

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Alleviation and sanctions in social dilemma games

Drouvelis, Michalis - In: Games 6 (2015) 3, pp. 368-380

This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...

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Delegation and public pressure in a threshold public goods game : theory and experimental evidence

İriş, Doruk; Lee, Jungmin; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016

The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. The contributions are managed by elected governments who, in turn, are subject to public pressure on the matter. In an...

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Achieving Efficiency in Dynamic Contribution Games

Cvitanic, Jaksa - 2017

We analyze a game in which a group of agents exert costly effort over time to make progress on a project. The project is completed once the cumulative efforts reach a pre-specified threshold, at which point it generates a lump sum payoff. We characterize a budget balanced mechanism that induces...

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Teaching Normative Economics with a Classroom Experiment : An Asymmetric Public Goods Game

Schmidt, Stephen - 2014

In this paper I present an asymmetric version of the familiar public goods classroom experiment, in which some players are given more tokens to invest than others, and players collectively decide whether to divide the return to the group investment asymmetrically as well. The asymmetry between...

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