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of the same type better than cooperative adolescents. Adolescents show lower cooperation levels and a slower adaption of … examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills … Public Goods Game. Results indicate that the cooperative type predicted other players. preference types more accurately in …
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stock of fossil fuels we compare the cooperative cost-effective policy with the unilateral cost-effective policy of …
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evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …
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problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …
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This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …
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frequently as well as that institution formation has a positive impact on cooperation rates and group welfare. However, the data …
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In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
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We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent’s rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit...
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
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If the threshold that triggers climate catastrophe is known with certainty, and the benefits of avoiding catastrophe are high relative to the costs, treaties can easily coordinate countries’ behavior so as to avoid the threshold. Where the net benefits of avoiding catastrophe are lower,...
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