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Do spouses realise cooperative gains? Experimental evidence from rural Uganda

Iversen, Vegard; Jackson, Cecile; Kebede, Bereket; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010

rural Uganda. Spouses frequently do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in …

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SEC enforcement: Does forthright disclosure and cooperation really matter?

Files, Rebecca - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 53 (2012) 1, pp. 353-374

leniency following a restatement. I explore whether cooperation with SEC staff and forthright disclosure of a restatement (e … controlling for restatement severity, I find that cooperation increases the likelihood of being sanctioned, perhaps because it … improves the SEC's ability to build a successful case against the firm. However, cooperation and forthright disclosures are …

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Scope and patterns of innovation cooperation in Spanish service enterprises

Trigo, Alexandre; Vence, Xavier - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 3, pp. 602-613

Latent Class Analysis to appraise the scope of innovation cooperation in services in the Spanish economy, in accordance with … the nature of the service activity affects both the partner chosen and the cooperation intensity. The results lead to the … creation of a typology of cooperation composed of three broad profiles: service firms intensive in techno …

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Why do electricity utilities cooperate with coal suppliers? A theoretical and empirical analysis from China

Zhao, Xiaoli; Lyon, Thomas P.; Wang, Feng; Song, Cui - In: Energy Policy 46 (2012) C, pp. 520-529

The asymmetry of Chinese coal and electricity pricing reforms leads to serious conflict between coal suppliers and electricity utilities. Electricity utilities experience significant losses as a result of conflict: severe coal price fluctuations, and uncertainty in the quantity and quality of...

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Social background, cooperative behavior, and norm enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 341-354

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechanism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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Embracing morals in economics: The role of internal moral constraints in a market economy

Stringham, Edward Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 78 (2011) 1, pp. 98-109

constraints can help strengthen cooperation in the short and long run. …

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Leading by words: A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 379-390

commonly accepted wisdom that the cooperation-enhancing effect of communication requires the mutual exchange of promises, we …

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Behavioral spillovers in coordination games

Cason, Timothy N.; Savikhin, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 2, pp. 233-245

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and sequentially. The results show that successful coordination...

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From locality to continent: A comment on the generalization of an experimental study

Kamei, Kenju - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 2, pp. 207-210

Kocher et al. (2008) find that conditional willingness to contribute to a public good is considerably stronger at a U.S. research site, Appalachian State University, than at sites in Europe and Asia. I find that the willingness at Brown University, in Rhode Island, is not significantly different...

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Men among men do not take norm enforcement seriously

Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 523-529

While there is ample evidence of a society-wide cooperation norm, it is not as clear who upholds this norm. In the … is context-dependent: men acting among other men are less inclined to uphold a cooperation norm than are women, or men in …

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