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Procedural group identification
Dimitrov, Dinko (contributor); Sung, Shao Chin (contributor) - 2006
corresponding initial set, and continue inductively until there is no possibility of expansion any more. -- Consensus ; Liberalism …In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure … of the second procedure is the set of all individuals who define themselves as members of the social group. Both …
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Procedural Group Identification
Dimitrov, Dinko; Sung, Shao Chin; Xu, Yongsheng - 2004
In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure … second procedure is the set of all individuals who are defined by everyone in the society as group members. Both procedures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071563
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Pricing Group Membership
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha - 2020
We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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Polarization in Group Interactions
Iyer, Ganesh; Yoganarasimhan, Hema - 2018
We study the phenomenon of strategic polarization in group interactions. Agents with private preferences choose a public action (e.g., voice opinions), and the mean of their actions represents the group’s realized outcome. They face a trade-off between influencing the group outcome and...
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Endogenous social identity and group choice : conference paper
Hett, Florian; Kröll, Markus; Mechtel, Mario - 2014
This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify with the respective group. Inducing a trade-off between...
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Individual and group cheating behavior : a field experiment with adolescents
Chytilová, Julie; Korbel, Václav - 2014
Dishonest activities with negative consequences for others and society are often undertaken by individuals as well as groups of people. In this paper, we use a field experiment among students aged 11-16 years to study whether there is a difference between individual and group cheating behavior....
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Multinary group identification
Cho, Wonki Jo; Ju, Biung-Ghi - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; journal of the Econometric … 12 (2017) 2, pp. 513-531
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Many-to-One Matching when Colleagues Matter
Revilla, Pablo - 2007
This paper studies many-to-one matching market in which each agent's preferences not only depend on the institution that hires her, but also on the group of her colleagues, which are matched to the same institution. With an unrestricted domain of preferences the non-emptiness of the core is not...
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Risk taking in social settings : group and peer effects
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2013
We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an incentivized investment task. We compare these choices to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a second with group choice after communication. Our...
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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
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