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Members, joiners, free-riders, supporters

Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees - 2016

We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...

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Separation of powers, political competition and efficient provision of public goods

Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2011 - This Version: 03 September 2010, First Version: 28 September 2007

In this paper we provide a political game where agents decide whether to become legislators or politicians. Legislators determine the political institutions constraining politicians' behavior and politicians compete for gaining the power to make decisions about the level of the public good. We...

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Challenging conventional wisdom : experimental evidence on heterogeneity and coordination in avoiding a collective catastrophic event

Waichman, Israel; Requate, Tilman; Karde, Markus; … - 2019

Avoiding a catastrophic climate change event is a global public good characterized by several dimensions, notably heterogeneity between the parties involved. It is often argued that such heterogeneity between countries is a major obstacle to cooperative climate policy. We challenge this belief...

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Climate finance and emission reductions : what do the last twenty years tell us?

Gavard, Claire; Schoch, Niklas - 2021 - This version: 29 January 2021

In the framework of the Paris Agreement implementation, financial transfers remain a major point of negotiation for addressing equity concerns raised by the ambitious climate objectives. In complement to the theoretical, experimental and numerical studies that have examined the role of transfers...

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Donations to increase productivity in public good production : experimental evidence

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023 - This version: March 2023

This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...

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Entry or exit? : the effect of voluntary participation on cooperation

Nosenzo, Daniele; Tufano, Fabio - 2015

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an …

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Entry or exit? : the effect of voluntary participation on cooperation

Nosenzo, Daniele; Tufano, Fabio - 2015

cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit …

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The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation

Nosenzo, Daniele; Tufano, Fabio - 2017 - This is a revised version of 2015-20

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias …

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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment

Dannenberg, Astrid; Haita-Falah, Corina; Zitzelsberger, … - 2019

Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding … contributors are excluded but also because high contributors sustain a higher cooperation level under the exclusion institution …

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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

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