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Trust and Reciprocity in the Market-Based Provision of Public Goods. Experimental Evidence and Applications to Conservation Tenders
Vogt, Nora - 2013
Zahlungen für Ökosystemdienstleistungen (Payments for Ecosystem Services – PES) und auktionsbasierte Vergabeverfahren sind ein wichtiges und innovatives Instrument im Kampf gegen den fortwährenden Verlust von biologischer Vielfalt. Basierend auf einem Vertrag zwischen einem...
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The Relationship between Behavioral and Attitudinal Trust: A Cross-cultural Study
Ahmed, Ali; Salas, Osvaldo - In: Review of Social Economy 67 (2009) 4, pp. 457-482
We study the relationship between trust in an experiment and trust measured by means of popular survey items in … answer a set of standard attitudinal survey questions about trust. We find that behavioral trust and attitudinal trust … significantly differ among countries. Behavioral trust is highest in Sweden, followed by Latin America, and lowest in India …
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"For the Public Benefit" Railways in the British Cape Colony
Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso; Fourie, Johan - 2016
Built mostly to support the early mining industry, the Cape Colony's railways reduced the cost of transport to the interior and increased labor productivity in the Colony from 1859 to 1905 by, we calculate, 30 percent. Little of the gains went to the state-owned company: the Cape parliament...
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National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development
Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2023
Early in their formation, modern nation-states face internal conflicts that impede their economic development. This paper examines the role of national identity in helping modern states overcome such conflicts to provide public goods and grow. We develop a model in which the population can...
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The Case for Direct Transfers of Resource Revenues in Africa-Working Paper 333
Devarajan, Shantayanan; Giugale, Marcelo - 2013
Noting that Africa’s resource-rich countries have not translated their wealth into sustained economic growth and poverty reduction, this paper shows that by transferring a portion of resource-related government revenues uniformly and universally as direct payments to the population, some...
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National identity, public goods, and modern economic development
Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2023
Early in their formation, modern nation-states face internal conflicts that impede their economic development. This paper examines the role of national identity in helping modern states overcome such conflicts to provide public goods and grow. We develop a model in which the population can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251036
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Civil War, Public Goods and the Social Wealth of Nations
Kanbur, Ravi; Pottebaum, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper establishes and explores the implications of a somewhat surprising empirical finding. Although civil war adversely affects the performance of social indicators in general, poorer countries lose less, in absolute and relative terms, than richer countries. It is argued that the...
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
Habyarimana, James; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, Daniel N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...
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Is social capital underproduced?
Craig, Alexander W.; Storr, Virgil Henry - In: Journal of public finance and public choice : JPFPC 37 (2022), pp. 123-147
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How social infrastructure is co-produced by local communities in Russia
Shagalov, I. L. - In: Problems of economic transition 63 (2022) 4/6, pp. 102-118
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