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

Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021

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 punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is … cooperative groups to avoid wasting resources for an unneeded punishment institution. In uncooperative groups, it helps members to …

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State coercion and control aversion : an internet study in East and West Germany

Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2019 - This version: September 2019

Do politico-economic systems influence how control affects motivation? We hypothesize that control aversion, meaning crowding-out of intrinsic motivation due to enforcement, has evolved less under the coercive regime of East Germany than under the liberal regime of West Germany. We test this...

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To condemn is not to punish : an experiment on hypocrisy

Jauernig, Johanna; Grundherr, Michael von; Uhl, Matthias - 2020

condemnation of hypocritical behavior, however, fails to produce a proportional amount of punishment. Punishment seems to be driven …

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Are people conditionally honest? : the effects of stakes and information about others' behavior

Le Maux, Benoît; Masclety, David; Necker, Sarah - 2020 - Preliminary draft

We study theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others' behavior affects dishonesty. We ran a laboratory experiment with 560 participants inspired by the "observed game" developed by Kajackaite and Gneezy (2017). We find that the extensive (the fraction of...

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Economic rewards versus economic sanctions in international relations

Brekhov, Boryslav - 2019

incomplete information: offering rewards or threatening punishments. Attempts to influence another's behaviour can have the … under complete information, rewards can be preferable under incomplete information. The sender often could do better by … committing to a certain course of action for the entire duration of interaction. Moreover, using rewards and sanctions in …

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Significance of the governance of blockchain systems

Tamm, Ulrich; Lenz, Rainer - In: Digital challenges and strategies in a pandemic world, (pp. 181-197). 2022

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Good governance and territorial marketing : two sides of the same coin? : development of market orientation through governance mechanisms in local government.

Anders, Justyna; Rudolf, Wawrzyniec - 2011 - Draft paper

The scope of the paper is to discuss the role of good governance in improving responsiveness of local government to the needs of the selected target markets (investors, tourists, students). The criteria of good governance and governance indicators are analysed with regard of their applicability...

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The nature and magnitude of the effects of asymmetric regulation of mobile termination rates on the Mexican retail prices

Robles-Rovalo, Arturo; Díaz-Goti, Emiliano; … - 2018

In theory, network profits are independent of the reciprocal termination rates when operators charge nondiscriminatory call prices (Laffont, Rey and Tirole, 1998). Additionally, termination rates can be used to subsidize subscriber acquisition cost. This issue is typically known as a "waterbed...

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Social welfare and internal and external economies for integration of public services

Nakamura, Daisuke - 2012 - A preliminary version

In population declining countries, public services in rural areas face potential problematic issues on the long-run sustainability, which are namely brought by insufficient economies of scale. Since these services play important roles as social infrastructure elements, a disappearance from the...

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Public policy targets in EU broadband markets : the role of technological neutrality

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Stocker, Volker; Whalley, Jason - 2018

The European Commission has recently sought to substantially revise how it regulates the telecommunication industry, with a key goal being to incentivise investment in high-speed broadband networks. Ambitious goals have been set regarding the availability and quality of broadband across the...

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