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Handbook on experimental economics and the environment

List, John A. (ed.); Price, Michael Keith (contributor) - 2013

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Environmental dilemmas revisited : structural consequences from the angle of institutional ergonomics

Beckenkamp, Martin - 2009

The structure of a social dilemma lies behind many environmental problems. Mingling temporal aspects of resources with the structure of the social dilemma often leads to wrong conclusions. Therefore, it is worth analytically separating temporal aspects from structural aspects of the dilemma....

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Social dilemmas, time preferences and technology adoption in a commons problem

Joosten, Reinoud - 2011

Agents interacting on a body of water choose between technologies to catch fish. One is harmless to the resource, as it allows full recovery; the other yields high immediate catches, but low(er) future catches. Strategic interaction in one "objective" resource game may induce "subjective" games...

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Institutional choice vs communication in social dilemmas : an experimental approach

Bischoff, Ivo (contributor) - 2006

commons through institutional change or communication. Teams of five players are placed in a dynamic CPR environment with …

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Four contributions to experimental economics

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. - 2008

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An Evolutionary Edge of Knowing Less : On the 'Curse' of Global Information

Stark, Oded - 2009

Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his two adjacent neighbors. The trade is governed by a prisoner's dilemma quot;rule of engagement.quot; A farmer's payoff is the sum of the payoffs from the two prisoner's dilemma games played with his two...

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The Tragedy of Corruption. Corruption as a Social Dilemma

Chen, Yefeng - 2016

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective failure is introduced when the number of public officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of individual interest...

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A Reconsideration of Inter-Group Cooperation with Defect Problem, with an Application to the Climate Change Issue

Guo, Yanling - 2020

Research has shown that seeking to benefit the own group can under certain conditions achieve the opposite result when the beneficiary inter-group cooperation opportunity is undermined with a prisoners' dilemma type tribal interest conflict. In this paper, I reconsider this problem using...

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Tragedy of the commons and evolutionary games in social networks : the economics of social punishment

Marco, Jorge; Goetz, Renan - 2017

This study revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. Extracting agents participate in an evolutionary game in … cohesiveness of the network contribute to overcoming the tragedy of the commons. The study suggests that the origin of the problem …

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Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas : Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action

Ostrom, Elinor - 2014

Problems of the commons exist in a wide variety of settings ranging in size and complexity from the family (e.g., the … useful theoretical tool for representing a simplified, core social dilemma facing a set of individuals sharing a commons …' Dilemma game to represent the problem of the commons. The individuals in such a game are assumed to have complete information …

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