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Burleson, Elizabeth - 2009

to water insecurity for everyone, yet bureaucratic obstacles such as inertia and corruption must be averted in altering … ingredients of good water governance include: (1) broad participation through the entire decision-making process; (2) transparent … flow of information; (3) equitable opportunities to increase well-being; (4) accountability from governments, the private …

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Deadlines and Infrequent Monitoring in the Dynamic Provision of Public Goods

Georgiadis, George - 2017

We consider a dynamic game of private provision of a discrete public good. In our model, a group of agents contributes to a project over time, which is completed once the cumulative contributions reach a threshold. Provided that this occurs prior to a prespecified deadline, each agent receives a...

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Achieving Efficiency in Dynamic Contribution Games

Cvitanic, Jaksa - 2017

We analyze a game in which a group of agents exert costly effort over time to make progress on a project. The project is completed once the cumulative efforts reach a pre-specified threshold, at which point it generates a lump sum payoff. We characterize a budget balanced mechanism that induces...

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The Power of the Weak : How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the UN Security Council

Mikulaschek, Christoph - 2016

variation in Africa's participation on the Security Council to estimate the influence of African states inside this body. Non …

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What Drives Quality of Schools in Africa? Disentangling Social Capital and Ethnic Divisions

Hollard, Guillaume - 2016

Because of limited governmental resources, communities in Africa often rely on collective action to provide basic public goods such as schools. What drives the ability of communities to produce better schools? Two important lines of research shaped our understanding of the ability of communities...

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A Portion of Profits to Charity : Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Profitability

Pecorino, Paul - 2016

I develop a model in which a firm can choose to donate a portion of its profits to the provision of a public good. Consumers value this public good and are willing to pay a price premium to a firm which makes such a donation. When this price premium is sufficiently large, the firm can raise its...

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Behavior in Group Contests : A Review of Experimental Research

Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2015

Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries, competition between political parties, team-incentives within firms, group sports, and rent-seeking. In order to succeed, members of the same group have incentives to cooperate with each other by expending individual...

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Inter-Charity Competition under Spatial Differentiation : Sorting, Crowding, and Spillovers

Gallier, Carlo - 2019

We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...

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Olson’s Logic of Collective Action at Fifty

Pecorino, Paul - 2014

In the 50 years since its publication, Mancur Olson's Logic of Collective Action has had an enormous impact on the academic literature in both economics and political science. In this review essay, I discuss Olson's work in light of the ensuing research, particularly developments in the...

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Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

Perc, Matjaz - 2018

Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large degree, to our unparalleled...

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