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Group Size and Incentive to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
Zhang, Michael; Zhu, Feng - HKUST Business School; Harvard University - 2007
The literature of private provision of public goods suggests thatincentive to contribute is inversely related to group size. This paperempirically tests this relationship using field data from ChineseWikipedia, an online encyclopedia. We exploit an exogenous reduction ingroup size as a result of...
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The Virtual Commons: Why Free-Riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks
Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.; Tang, Zhulei; … - 2008
Peer-to-peer networks have emerged as a popular alternative to traditional client-server architectures for the distribution of information goods. Recent academic studies have observed high levels of free-riding in various peer-to-peer networks, leading some to predict the imminent collapse of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441085
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Generating Revenues from WTP for Ecosystem Restoration: An Auction Experiment on Public Goods
Smith, Elizabeth C.; Swallow, Stephen K. - 2010
mechanism and actual (not hypothetical) money payments. A conditional logit model, rooted in McFadden’s choice theory,is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446146
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AN APPLICATION OF GAME THEORY: FUNDING INTERDEPENDENT MC and A UPGRADE DECISIONS
B. G. SCOTT - 2008
required to take into account the decisions of others, the process can be modeled as a game. Game theory has been previously be … the strategy of others. In this paper, the application of game theory in the context of MC&A upgrades is discussed …. By demonstrating the application of game theory to a nontraditional environment that may require MC&A upgrades, this work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435804
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Alternative comparison, analysis, and evaluation of solid waste and materials system alternatives
Brothers, A.J. - 2009
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of solid waste technical options on values and objectives that are important to the public. It is written in support of the Solid Waste and Materials Systems Alternatives Study (WHC, 1995). Described are the values that were identified,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436048
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Industrial Partnership Prosperity Game{trademark}
Boyak, K.; Berman, M.; Beck, D. - 2009
Prosperity Games TM are an outgrowth and adaptation move/countermove and seminar War Games. Prosperity Games TM are simulations that explore complex issues in a variety of areas including economics, politics, sociology, environment, education, and research. These issues can be examined from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436398
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Treaty verification with an uncertain partner
Weissenberger, S. - 2008
A simple model is used to analyze the performance of a system for verifying compliance with an arms control treaty. Blue and Red are partners in to a treaty. Blue prefers to comply, but is uncertain whether Red similarly prefers compliance (in the absence of threatened violation detection)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436809
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Continuous game dynamics: an experimental study.
Patelli, P.; Sato, Yuzuru - 2010
In this paper we study an experiment with human agents strategically interacting in a game characterized by continuous time and continuous strategy space. The research is focused in studying the agents interaction dynamic under different experimental settings. The agents play a two person game...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436918
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Modeling attacker-defender interactions in information networks.
Collins, Michael Joseph - 2011
too high. We have used game theory to develop models of how non-cooperative but non-malicious players in a network … interact when there is a substantial cost associated with effective defensive measures. Although game theory has been applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437335
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Cooperative profit sharing in coalition based resource allocation in wireless networks
Aram, Alireza; Singh, Chandramani; Sarkar, Saswati; … - 2009
transferable payoff coalitional game theory. We first consider the scenario that locations of the base stations and the channels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438862