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Short-term or long-term contracts? - A rent-seeking perspective

Gürtler, Oliver - 2007

course leads to less rent seeking. Finally, a longer contract makes a possible cooperation between the firms solving the rent …In this paper, firms engage in rent seeking in order to be assigned a governmental contract. We analyze how a change in … the contract length affects the firms' rent-seeking behavior. A longer contract leads to more rent seeking at a contract …

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Short-term or long-term contracts? - A rent-seeking perspective

Gürtler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

course leads to less rent seeking. Finally, a longer contract makes a possible cooperation between the .rms solving the rent …In this paper, .rms engage in rent seeking in order to be assigned a governmental contract. We analyze how a change in … the contract length a¤ects the .rms. rent-seeking behavior. A longer contract leads to more rent seeking at a contract …

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Observable strategies, commitments, and contracts

Wärneryd, Karl Erik - 2014

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 the...

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Building an equilibrium : rules vs. principles in relational contracts

Gibbons, Robert; Grieder, Manuel; Herz, Holger; … - In: Organization science 34 (2023) 6, pp. 2231-2249

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The Evolution of Sharing Rules in Rent Seeking Contests: Incentives Crowd Out Cooperation

Ursprung, Heinrich - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011

incentive schemes have gradually crowded out cooperation as an organization device. Our explanation does not draw on free …-riding, the obvious Achilles’ heel of cooperation, but relies completely on fundamental group contest mechanisms. By investigating …

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Cooperation versus competition between agents in relational contracts

Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E. - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 179 (2023) 3/4, pp. 616-638

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Sustaining cooperation : community enforcement vs. specialized enforcement

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - 2015

specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment … following deviations by regular agent is that such actions, by reducing future cooperation, would decrease the amount of …

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Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs: Trust and cooperation in the shadow of conflict

Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Karl Ove - 2010

groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start …

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Incomplete Punishment Networks in Public Goods Games: Experimental Evidence

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Saaksvuori, Lauri - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013

Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions in alternative punishment networks. Our results show that...

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Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs - trust and cooperation in the shadow of conflict

Mehlum, Halvor; Ove Moene, Karl - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2011

groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776039