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Valuing Public Goods : The Life Satisfaction Approach
Stutzer, Alois; Luechinger, Simon; Frey, Bruno S. - 2004
This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people's preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071402
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Valuing Public Goods : The Life Satisfaction Approach
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people's preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319367
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Organising co-existence in cyberspace : content regulation and privacy compared
Engel, Christoph - 2002
The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582891
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Quantal Response Equilibria in a Generalized Volunteer's Dilemma and Step-Level Public Goods Games with Binary Decision
Kawagoe, Toshiji - 2015
The present paper fully characterizes equilibria of a generalized Volunteer's Dilemma game, which is an integration of the volunteer's dilemma game and the step-level public goods game with binary decision. We also examined the explanatory power of a widely accepted model with bounded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028952
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Who Wants Violence? The Political Economy of Conflict and State Building in Colombia
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2017
Enduring violent conflict is the flip side of the coin of a weak state. In this article, I propose some political economy underpinnings for the persistence of conflict (and the weak state). Focusing on the case of Colombia, I discuss three broad sets of mechanisms that are also relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941543
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Asymmetric Volunteer's Dilemma Game : Theory and Experiment
Kawagoe, Toshiji - 2019
This study explores asymmetric volunteers' dilemma (VOD) games where costs for volunteering is different among players. Diekmann (1993) conjectures that an equilibrium, in which a player with less costs contributes, is more likely to be played if it is risk dominant. We re-examined this...
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The value of national defense : assessing public preferences for defense policy options
Qari, Salmai; Börger, Tobias; Lohse, Tim; Meyerhoff, … - 2023
Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good … - national defense - has so far escaped assessment. Much of the literature has instead considered indirect benefits of defense … of defense policy, namely an increase in the security of citizens, by means of a survey-based discrete choice experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450765
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Panic in the Lab : The Effect of Extreme External Risks and Bolstering Cooperation in Public Goods Games
Schweitzer, Sascha; Shen, Peiyao; Siebert, Johannes Ulrich - 2023
Cooperation in providing common goods is crucial for flourishing social systems, yet rare but extreme events, such as pandemics, stock market collapses, and terror attacks, pose a risk that could undermine cooperation. We extend the public goods game (PGG) to investigate the relationship between...
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Leading by example in intergroup competition: An experimental approach
Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We investigate leading by example in a public goods game in scenarios with and without intergroup competition. Leading by example is implemented via a sequential decision protocol. We examine both one-shot and repeated interaction and make use of the strategy method to characterize followers'...
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Leading by Words in Privileged Groups
Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391904