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Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada. Niobium has an important role in steel alloys for the aerospace industry and future potential for the industry's superconductors. The present paper investigates the prevailing...
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Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...
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effects of participation in markets on non-market activities requiring cooperation. In our setup, market interaction takes …-Strangers. We compare the efficiency of cooperation with and without market experience controlling for earnings, allowing us to … effect on cooperation efficiency in Market-Partners, that is among those who had to compete with each other on on the same …
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skeptical about undisclosed quality. We show that neither competition nor the presence of sophisticated consumers necessarily …
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identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along … these two dimensions documents that cooperation and punishment patterns are intuitively aligned for most individuals … are more crucial for achieving cooperation than conditional cooperators. Incorporating information on punishment types …
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experiments show an affinity for conditional cooperation, readily conditioning their behavior on both the state of the world, and …
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We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …
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assumption that the salience of the advantages of mutual cooperation plays a decisive role. This hypothesis is successfully …
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In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation … finding is that in our setting conditional cooperation is not a strong enough force to increase contribution levels. Although … cooperation and puts some doubt on the idea that it is crucial in overcoming social dilemma problems …
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We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …
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