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Chapter 1 Introduction
Hartley, Keith; Sandler, Todd - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 1-11). 1995
This chapter defines defense economics and indicates how it differs from other subfields of economics. The nature and topics of defense economics are presented. A brief history of the field is also reviewed. The current importance of defense economics in the post-cold war era is discussed....
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Generosity and political preferences
Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus; Lindqvist, Erik - 2012
We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution...
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Is there a dividend of democracy? : experimental evidence from cooperation games
Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023
Do democratically chosen rules lead to more cooperation and, hence, higher efficiency, than imposed rules? To discuss … against cooperation (i.e., free-riding incentives prevail) despite adoption of cooperation-improving policies. While many … studies find positive dividends of democracy across a broad range of cooperation settings, we also report on studies that find …
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The effect of signalling and beliefs on the voluntary provision of public goods
Berlemann, Michael - 2003
. Using fixed effect panel regression models we find that cooperation significantly increases when participants are forced to … guess the degree of overall cooperation. We also find that the possibility to make announcements during the experiment … enhances cooperation significantly although these commitments are not binding and heavily used for cheating purposes. We …
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Towards a political economy of privately provided public goods
Neumärker, Karl Justus Bernhard - 1997
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The signalling power of sanctions in collective action problems
Weele, Joël J. van der (contributor) - 2007
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes : an experiment
Putterman, Louis G.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes : an experiment
Putterman, Louis G.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...
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Essays on social choice and mechanism design
Samejima, Yusuke - 2004
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Collective commitment
Roessler, Christian; Shelegia, Sandro; Strulovici, Bruno - 2014
We consider collective decisions made by agents whose preferences and power depend on past events and decisions. Faced with an ineffcient equilibrium and an opportunity to commit to a policy, can the agents reach an agreement on such a policy? Under an intuitive condition linking power...
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