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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468335
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468340
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Testing a Coordination Process for Shared Goods: The Possibility of Successful Collective Action
Loehman, Edna T.; Rassenti, Stephen J. - 1997
"This paper reports the design and testing of a coordination process for finding a group agreement simultaneously about cost sharing and the nature of a shared good. The process was designed to search for a cost sharing equilibrium, a particular type of Pareto optimum. The cost share equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468385
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Theoretical conception of climate-smart agriculture
Collins-Sowah, Peron A. - 2018
In this paper, I explored the various components and conceptual underpinnings of climate smart agriculture to develop a conceptual framework to better understand climate smart agriculture. Furthermore, I proposed a new definition of "climate smart agriculture" based on the various components of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022798
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Becoming applied : the transformation of economics after 1970
Backhouse, Roger; Cherrier, Béatrice - 2015 - Version 1.12
theory than was previously the case. Discussing new types of applied work, the changing context of applied work, and new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617408
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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process
Bischoff, Ivo - 2001
This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509849
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Becoming applied : the transformation of economics after 1970
Backhouse, Roger; Cherrier, Béatrice - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495180
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Advancing Information Systems Theories : Rationale and Processes
Hassan, Nik R. (ed.); Willcocks, Leslie (ed.) - 2021
Framework.-4: Theory Building is Neither Art nor a Science. It is a Craft -- 5: The Process of Information Systems Theorizing as … Theorizing: The Contribution of Practical Theory -- 8: Pathways To IT-Rich Recontextualised Modifying of Borrowed Theories …: Illustrations from IS Strategy -- 9: Pluralist Theory Building: A Methodology for Generalizing from Data to Theory -- 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496273
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Monetary incentives and the contagion of unethical behavior
Le Maux, Benoît; Masclet, David; Necker, Sarah - 2021
We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being a payoff associated with each number. They can...
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