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Präventive Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates im 21. Jahrhundert

Sturn, Richard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 100 (2020) 7, pp. 531-537

Der Staat steht angesichts der Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft durch die Digitalisierung, die Globalisierung und den Klimawandel vor neuen und großen Herausforderungen. Diesen wird er am besten gerecht, wenn er Probleme präventiv behandelt und nicht ex post „heilt“. Um die...

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The evolution of networks and local public good provision : a potential approach

Kinateder, Markus; Merlino, Luca Paolo - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-12

In this paper, we propose a game in which each player decides with whom to establish a costly connection and how much local public good is provided when benefits are shared among neighbors. We show that, when agents are homogeneous, Nash equilibrium networks are nested split graphs....

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Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias

Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - In: Games 16 (2025) 3, pp. 1-46

Media content is an important privately supplied public good. While it has been shown that contributions to a public good crowd out other contributions in many cases, the issue has not been thoroughly studied for media markets yet. We show that in a standard model of commercial media bias,...

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How do voters respond to welfare vis-à-vis public good programs? : theory and evidence of political clientelism

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 655-697

Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...

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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality

Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023

While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...

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EU demand for defense, 1990-2019 : a strategic spatial approach

George, Justin; Sandler, Todd - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/13, pp. 1-18

For 1990-2019, this study presents two-step GMM estimates of EU members' demands for defense spending based on alternative spatial-weight matrices. In particular, EU spatial connectivity is tied to EU membership status, members' contiguity, contiguity and power projection, inverse distance, and...

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Inequality hinders group efforts to avoid environmental disasters

Brown, Thomas C.; Kroll, Stephan - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

Using a threshold public good experiment, we examine how varying degrees of inequality in resources and differences in risk of loss among players affect the success of group efforts to avoid a common loss. We find that when the poor face greater risk than the rich, contributions and success in...

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Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments

Blanco, Esther; Struwe, Natalie; Walker, James - 2020

and outsiders. Outsiders, unable to provide the public good, can send transfers to compensate insiders. The institutions … is present or not. With the equal sharing rule, insiders receive an equal share of transfers. With the proportional rule …, insiders receive a share of transfers proportional to their relative contributions in their group. When the additionality …

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How can we improve air pollution? : try increasing trust first

Cafferata, Fernando G.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Scartascini, … - 2021

Environmental policies are characterized by salient short-term costs and long-term benefits that are difficult to observe and to attribute to the government's efforts. These characteristics imply that citizens' support for environmental policies is highly dependent on their trust in the...

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Zakat: changing the framework of giving

Al-Bawwab, Rania - In: Islamic economic studies 30 (2023) 2, pp. 86-103

Purpose - This paper aims to show that zakat solves the collective action problem by changing the framework of giving. An additional purpose of this paper is an attempt to fill a critical gap in the Islamic economics literature. This gap concerns the nature and role of zakat in effectively...

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