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provide information on income distribution and show that cooperation significantly increases overall. Moreover, the effect can …Yang et al.(2007) show that assortative matching mechanisms can induce a high level of cooperation to prevail in … be traced back to a higher cooperation rate for people in the lowest income classes. …
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This paper studies monitoring and punishment behavior by second and third parties in a cooperation experiment with … endogenous information structures: Players are uninformed whether the target player cooperated or defected at the cooperation … stage, but can decide to resolve the information imperfection at non-negative cost at the punishment stage. We examine how …
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Under what conditions can cooperation be sustained in a network of strangers? Here we study the role of institutions … and uncover a new behavioral foundation for the use of monetary systems. In an experiment, anonymous subjects could … possible, including full intertemporal cooperation supported by a social norm based on community punishment of defectors. We …
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vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about … information structure when persons with different abilities contribute to a joint project, as in the context of teamwork or …
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strict preference to hide offers from rivals.However, when sellers do share price information, they attain a higher price and …
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vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about … information structure when persons with different abilities contribute to a joint project, as in the context of teamwork or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868135
Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...
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The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the civil wars (Colombia … paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting information previously learned between the inhabitants of the town. For these … reasons, it is shown that information is a key phenomenon to understand civil wars. Moreover, as demonstrated in this work is …
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Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114299
information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener’s attention to … similarities between cases and to re-organize existing information in a way that highlights certain regularities. In this paper we …
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