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Inequality, coalitions and collective action
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Singh, Nirvikar - 2004
In a model where cooperation is beneficial, but subject to cheating, and is supported by trigger strategy punishments in a repeated game, we explore the relationship between the nature of cooperation (size and composition of coalitions) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private...
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Coalitions and collective action
Holler, Manfred J. (revision) - 1984
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Inequality, coalitions and collective action
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Singh, Nirvikar - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002117658
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The Collective Action Problem : Within-group Cooperation and Between-group Competition in a Repeated Rent-Seeking Game
Cheikbossian, Guillaume - 2008
This paper analyzes the ability of group members to cooperate in rent-seeking in a context of between-group competition. For this purpose, we develop an infinitely repeated rent-seeking model with two groups where within-group cooperation is supported through the use of a double-edged trigger...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …
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Stability of coalitional equilibria within repeated tax competition
Brangewitz, Sonja; Brockhoff, Sarah - 2012
particular, for a given coalition structure we study to what extend the stability of tax agreements is affected by the coalitions … means of a repeated game setting employing simple trigger strategies and we allow a sub-coalition to deviate from the … coalitional equilibrium. For a given form of punishment we are able to rank the stability of different coalition structures as …
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Stability of Coalitional Equilibria within Repeated Tax Competition
Brangewitz, Sonja - 2012
particular, for a given coalition structure we study to what extend the stability of tax agreements is affected by the coalitions … means of a repeated game setting employing simple trigger strategies and we allow a sub-coalition to deviate from the … coalitional equilibrium. For a given form of punishment we are able to rank the stability of different coalition structures as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108831
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Stable Agreements in Infinitely Repeated Games
Xue, Licun - 2001
by Greenberg (1989, 1990) to account for self-enforcing coalitional deviations. An agreement is stable if no coalition …
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Aspects of behavior in repeated games : an experimental study
Davis, Douglas; Ivanov, Asen; Korenok, Oleg - 2014
We introduce a novel approach to studying behavior in repeated games - one that is based on the psychology of play. Our approach is based on the following six "aspects" of a player's behavior: round-1 cooperation, lenience, forgiveness, loyalty, leadership, and following. Using a laboratory...
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Effecting Cooperation
Compte, Olivier; Postlewaite, Andrew - 2009
There is a large repeated games literature illustrating how future interactions provide incentives for cooperation. Much of this literature assumes public monitoring: players always observe precisely the same thing. Even slight deviations from public monitoring to private monitoring that...
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