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Successful coordination is key for economic and societal wealth. The rich literature on the minimum-effort game (MEG …) has provided valuable insights into coordination, both theoretically and empirically. Yet, although real-world scenarios … often involve asymmetric benefits and/or costs from coordination, most previous studies rely on symmetric MEGs. We …
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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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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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theoretical refinements by introducing the concept of <<coordination resources >> to indicate modalities that permit connections … the build-up of partnerships and the complementary role of coordination resources. Social embeddedness appears to be …
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transformed into a coordination problem that is much easier to deal with (Barrett, 2013). This holds in particular if the amount … a multiplicity of equilibria in this coordination problem, the assumption that outsiders will always successfully …
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