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There is much evidence against the so-called too big to fail hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...
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The paper addresses the welfare implications of conditional grants in the presence of inefficiencies in regional production. While conditional grants may set incentives for regions to reduce inefficiencies, resources are wasted in the process of grant-seeking. We provide a theoretical model to...
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Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision … to higher cooperation rates, albeit not as high as in the condition in which discussions about the social dilemma are …
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voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …
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We experimentally investigate cooperation in privileged groups which according to Olson (1965) are groups in which at … opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups …
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