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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people

Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free riders, who are unable to cooperate without...

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The value of punishment of free riders : a case study on the receiving fee system of the Japanese public broadcasting organization

Kakizawa, Hisanobu - 2017

Social preferences for the punishment of free riders are critical for generating cooperative behavior in human society. Focusing on the receiving fees of Japan's public broadcaster, this study analyses how punishment of free riders, that is, the strengthening of legal responses against them,...

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A global map of amenities : public goods, ethnic divisions and decentralization

Seidel, André - 2020 - This version: 20.02.2020

I analyze the effects of ethnic divisions on the provision of public goods. Using OpenStreetMap data, I construct a new global dataset of locations of public amenities, such as schools, hospital and libraries. I allow for the possibility that the data may be systematically incomplete using two...

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Climate change and individual behavior

Bernard, René; Tzamourani, Panagiota; Weber, Michael - 2021 - Revised version: February 2022

This paper studies the causal effect of providing information about climate change on individuals' willingness to pay to offset carbon emissions in a randomized control trial. Receiving truthful information about ways to reduce CO2 emissions increases individuals' willingness to pay for CO2...

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Why echo chambers are useful

Jann, Ole; Schottmuller, Christoph - 2019

Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into “echo chambers”? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody’s...

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Motivated belief updating and rationalization of information

Drobner, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2021 - Revised version: October 18, 2021

We study belief updating about relative performance in an egorelevant task. Manipulating beliefs about the ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs about relative performance more optimistically as direct belief utility increases. This finding provides clean evidence...

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Congestion, wage rigidities and the provision of public intermediate goods

Pauser, Johannes - 2020

This paper examines efficiency in the provision and utilization of a congestible public input in a symmetric tax competition framework with wage rigidities. Despite the fact that also lump-sum taxation is available for regional governments, second-best efficiency emerges only as a special case...

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Working title: do municipal climate protection activities interfere with individual engagement?

Bartels, Lara Esther; Kesternich, Martin - 2021 - Version: March 1, 2021

The Paris Agreement aims at limiting the global average temperature increase to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels. A key component of the agreement are "nationally determined contributions" (NDC). For this, non-state actors such as civil society groups, economic actors, and subnational...

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Learning taxonomy-based education game design to deploy learning objectives to game design : a case study of leadership education

Mulyono, Nur Budi; Putranto, Nur Arief Rahmatsyah; … - In: Eurasian business perspectives : proceedings of the …, (pp. 231-241). 2020

This chapter aims to propose educational games development to facilitate learning and maximizing joy during the … learning process. The joy of learning through games has been tested in many subjects of teaching. Most of them show an … improvement in the effectiveness of the learning process. However, developing a proper education game requires adequate analysis …

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Thompson sampling : endogenously random behavior in games and markets

Mauersberger, Felix - 2019 - This draft: February 28, 2019

Bayesian learning and quantal response equilibrium (QRE) - above all in complex environments with many possible actions. …

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