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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2000

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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Cost-effective Approaches to Attracting Low-Income Countries to International Emissions Trading: Theory and Experiments

Bohm, Peter; Carlén, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2000

The cost-effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol and any similar non-global treaty would be enhanced by attracting as many new countries as possible to integrational emissions trading and achieving these additions as soon as possible. This paper focuses on two forms of compensation that can be used...

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Voluntary Participation Game Experiments with a Non-Excludable Public Good: Is Spitefulness a Source of Cooperation?.

Saijo, T.; Yamato, T.; Yokotani, K.; Cason, T.N. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

Economic theory predicts that it is impossible to have cooperation in finitely repeated games such as a prisoner's dilemma game without communication. In an experiment on a voluntary participation game with a non-excludable public good that is a version of a Hawk-Dove game, we obderved that...

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Who would get Gains from EU's Quantity Restraint on Emissions Trading in the Kyoto Protocol?.

Kaino, Y.; Saijo, T.; Yamato, T. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

The EU proposal on the quantity restraint of the emissions trading in the Kyoto Protocol aims at reducing the so called hot air that would be generated by the purchase of emissions permits sold by a country whose actual emissions are much lower than the assigned amount. In this paper we show...

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A Four Country Comparision of Spite, Cooperation and Errors in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms.

Brandts, J.; Saijo, T.; Schram, A. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

This paper presents data from experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in … WB Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Email: ArthurS@fee.uva.nl Abstract This paper presents data from experiments with a …, Prasnikar, Okuwo- Fujiwara and Zamir (1991) and Burlando & Hey (1997). The degree of control that can be achieved in experiments …

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Voluntary Participation and Spite in Public Good Provision Experiments: an International Comparison.

Cason, T.N.; Saijo, T.; Yamato, T. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

This paper studies public good provision in the laboratory using voluntary contribution mechanism, in a cross-cultural experiment conducted in the United States and Japan.

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Designing GHG Emissions Trading Institutions in the Kyoto Protocol: an Experimental Approach.

Hizen, Y.; Saijo, T. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

We re-evaluate two experiments by Hizen and Saijo (1999a,b) to examine the performance of bilateral trading and double …

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Field Experiments Demonstrate Fuel Savings for Close-Following

Michaelian, Mark; Browand, Fred - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2000

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Can you guess the game you're playing?

Oechssler, Joerg; Schipper, Burkhard - 2000

Recently there has been much theoretical and experimental work on learning in games. However, learning usually means learning about the strategic behavior of opponents rather than learning about the game as such. In contrast, here we report on an experiment designed to test whether players learn...

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Efficiency in auctions with private and common values : an experimental study

Goeree, Jacob K.; Offerman, Theo - 2000

. We report a series of first-price auction experiments to measure the degree of inefficiency that occurs with financially …

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