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Intergroup conflict and intra-group punishment in an experimental contest game

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 420-447

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On the inappropriateness of collective rent seeking analysis when agents exert within-group and between-group efforts

Hausken, Kjell - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 504-507

production and conflict model. Six economics examples illustrate the unrealistic implications of rent seeking analysis. …

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 107-123

We investigate how burden sharing rules impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common...

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Intergroup Conflict and Intra-group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 420-47

We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of sociopolitical conflict. The theoretical prediction is that … conflict expenditures are independent of group size and of whether punishment is available. We find, first, that conflict …

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Threshold Effectiveness in Contributing to the Public Goods: Experiments Involving Czech Students

Špalek, Jiří; Berná, Zuzana - In: Prague Economic Papers 2011 (2011) 3, pp. 250-267

Voluntary contribution mechanism to public goods is one of the traditional types of economic experiments. The article summarizes the results of series of experiments that have been conducted with several groups of Czech university students. Using the threshold mechanism the impact of several...

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Are economists different? economic model

Šeneklová, Jitka; Špalek, Jiří - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 1, pp. 21-47

One of the key assumptions of neoclassical economics is the existence of the rational individual, who always tries to maximize his or her utility. The paper shows possibilities of experimental evaluation of this hypothesis with respect to the various groups of people who undertake the...

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Group membership, team preferences, and expectations

Guala, Francesco; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, Matteo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 183-190

Group membership is a powerful determinant of social behaviour in a variety of experimental games. Its effect may be channelled primarily via the beliefs of group members, or directly change their social preferences. We report an experiment with a prisoner's dilemma with multiple actions, in...

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Endogenous Timing in Pollution Control: Stackelberg versus Cournot-Nash Equilibria

Heugues, Melanie - In: Strategic Behavior and the Environment 2 (2012) 2, pp. 133-158

In the framework of international cooperation on climate change to control green-house gas emissions (GHG), this paper aims to shed new light on the eventuality of the emergence of a country (or a group of countries) behaving as a leader in the implementation of its environmental policy. The...

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Efficient International Environmental Agreements for Correlated Transnational Pollutants in the Presence of Free Trade of Goods and International Transfers

Silva, Emilson C. D.; Zhu, Xie - In: Strategic Behavior and the Environment 1 (2011) 2, pp. 175-197

We examine numerous settings in which large strategic nations make environmental policies in the presence of international trade and form coalitions that aim to mitigate global or continental transnational pollution. We show that every nation has incentives to internalize all emission...

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Теория опекаемых благ в оптике сравнительной методологии

Rubinstein, Alexander Yakovlevich - In: Published articles (2013)

Настоящее исследование посвящено методологическим аспектам Теории опекаемых благ, модификации двух либеральных принципов австрийской...

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