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This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
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A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective …
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difference models we find that hypermarket stores with cooperative ownership grow sales significantly faster than GESPA stores …. For supermarkets overall we find no significant difference in performance among the three types of stores. However, for a … cooperatives. Finally, while cooperative members are better paid than their peers in comparable firms, individual-level data also …
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Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is...
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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … systematically varied across games. We find that few second movers are conditionally cooperative (i.e., cooperate if and only if the … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from …
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BoS, with high and low payoff inequality. In PD, disclosure markedly hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players …
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find support for risk dominance of TFT as a determinant of cooperation. This comment introduces the "Payback" strategy … explain the observed cooperation patterns …
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in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …
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interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …
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stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even …
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