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Between-group conflict and other-regarding preferences in nested social dilemmas

Böhm, Robert; Bornstein, Gary; Koppel, Hannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate experimentally the underlying motivations and individual dierences with regard to the participation in between-group conflict in nested social dilemmas. In our nested social dilemmas, the collective is divided into two groups, and individuals allocate tokens between a private, a...

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Fear of being left alone drives inefficient exit from partnerships. An experiment

Gaudeul, Alexia; Crosetto, Paolo; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...

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Planning ahead: eliciting intentions and beliefsin a public goods game

Gonzales, Luis G.; Levati, Vittoria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 104 Planning ahead: eliciting intentions and beliefs in … 3641 686667. E-mail address: levati@econ.mpg.de (M. V. Levati). Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-104 1. Introduction … actor should ‘reveal’ them not only 2 Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-104 in the way his immediate actions relate to his …

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The geography and the effect of creative people in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2007

This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...

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Globalization and the rise of the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2007

This paper argues that globalization has led to a shift in developed countries from an industrial to an entrepreneurial model of production. Globalization is interpreted as a level shock in the supply of unskilled labor to the world economy, a decrease in the level of political risk associated...

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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that have been registered by residents of that region....

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Personal identity in the dictator game

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espinosa, María Paz - 2007

This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in decision making. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social identity poses, our proposal focuses on the concept of personal...

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Globalization and employment: imported skill biased technological change in developing countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007

This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment...

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Do consumers pay voluntarily?: the case of online music

Regner, Tobias; Barria, Javier A. - 2007

The paper analyses the payment behaviour of customers of the online music label Magnatune. Customers may pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). Magnatune's comprehensive pre-purchase access facilitates music discovery and allows an informed...

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Biodiversity, international tourism and development

Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph - 2007

We analyze whether biodiversity is increasing the receipts of tourism and beneficial for Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity provides a comparative advantage for most LDCs. We use a simple trade theory framework. The model is supported by an...

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