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Internationale Migration, Verteilung und öffentliche Güter

Leiner, Nadine - 1997

Ausgehend vom theoretischen Teil dieser Arbeit wurden in diesem Kapitel kurzAnsätze migrationspolitischer Konsequenzen skizziert. Dabei wurde einleitendfür Deutschland herausgearbeitet, dass die öffentlichen Haushalte zugunsten derZuwanderer und auf Kosten der Einheimischen wirken. Bei der...

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Enhancing expert system intelligentagents using game theory

Vineyard, Craig - 2009

theory seeks to devise the optimal strategy in strategic scenarios. Although this approach is not applicable in generalized …

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Group Size and Incentive to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

Zhang, Michael; Zhu, Feng - HKUST Business School; Harvard University - 2007

The literature of private provision of public goods suggests thatincentive to contribute is inversely related to group size. This paperempirically tests this relationship using field data from ChineseWikipedia, an online encyclopedia. We exploit an exogenous reduction ingroup size as a result of...

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Public goods and tax competition in a two-sided market

Kotsogiannis, Christos; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2010

A rather neglected issue in the tax competition literature is the dependence of equilibrium outcomes on the presence of firms and shoppers (two-sided markets). Making use of a model of vertical and horizontal differentiation, within which jurisdictions compete by providing public goods and...

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The Virtual Commons: Why Free-Riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks

Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.; Tang, Zhulei; … - 2008

Peer-to-peer networks have emerged as a popular alternative to traditional client-server architectures for the distribution of information goods. Recent academic studies have observed high levels of free-riding in various peer-to-peer networks, leading some to predict the imminent collapse of...

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Designing Market Based Instruments: Beyond Round One of the Australian MBI Pilot Program

Lansdell, Nicola; Stoneham, Gary - 2006

Most markets have evolved as buyers and sellers constantly search for ways to create value, however this has not occurred naturally in all areas of the economy markets are missing for some goods, including the environment. In such cases, transaction costs linked to property rights, asymmetric...

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Policies for Promoting Public Goods in Agriculture

Romstad, Eirik - 2002

The ongoing negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on agriculture has triggered an increased interest in the linkages between commodity production and public goods in agriculture. This paper takes a closer look at this issue. Particular emphasis is placed on production economics and...

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Green Giving: An Analysis of Contributions to Major U.S. Environmental Groups

Richer, Jerrell - 1995

Data are compiled from the tax records of 29 major environmental organizations for the period 1980-1994 to identify factors that influence voluntary contributions. I examine the effects of organizational characteristics, such as fundraising expenditures and alternative sources of revenue, along...

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Generating Revenues from WTP for Ecosystem Restoration: An Auction Experiment on Public Goods

Smith, Elizabeth C.; Swallow, Stephen K. - 2010

collected using a field experiment employingan experimental auction approach with mechanisms to reduce free riding often seen in … willingness to pay estimates are compared to a baseline choice experiment that employs an incentive compatible, majority vote … mechanism and actual (not hypothetical) money payments. A conditional logit model, rooted in McFadden’s choice theory,is used to …

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ANIMAL HEALTH AND THE ROLE OF COMMUNITIES: AN EXAMPLE OF TRYPANASOMOSIS CONTROL OPTIONS IN UGANDA

McCarthy, Nancy; McDermott, John; Coleman, Paul - 2003

In many African countries, governments are re-thinking the role of the state in centrally providing certain goods and services. The rights and responsibilities for providing various public goods are being decentralized to lower levels of government administration, and/or being devolved directly...

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